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HistoryNov 21, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

ruby1.8 - security update

2014-11-2100:00:00
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95.6%

This update fixes multiple local and remote denial of service and remote code
execute problems:

  • CVE-2011-0188
    Properly allocate memory, to prevent arbitrary code execution or application
    crash. Reported by Drew Yao.
  • CVE-2011-2686
    Reinitialize the random seed when forking to prevent CVE-2003-0900 like
    situations.
  • CVE-2011-2705
    Modify PRNG state to prevent random number sequence repeatation at forked
    child process which has same pid. Reported by Eric Wong.
  • CVE-2011-4815
    Fix a problem with predictable hash collisions resulting in denial of service
    (CPU consumption) attacks. Reported by Alexander Klink and Julian Waelde.
  • CVE-2014-8080
    Fix REXML parser to prevent memory consumption denial of service via crafted
    XML documents. Reported by Willis Vandevanter.
  • CVE-2014-8090
    Add REXML::Document#document to complement the fix for CVE-2014-8080.
    Reported by Tomas Hoger.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in ruby1.8 version 1.8.7.302-2squeeze3