USN-691-1: Ruby vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10

Packages

• ruby1.9 -

Details

Laurent Gaffie discovered that Ruby did not properly check for memory
allocation failures. If a user or automated system were tricked into
running a malicious script, an attacker could cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2008-3443)

This update also fixes a regression in the upstream patch previously
applied to fix CVE-2008-3790. The regression would cause parsing of
some XML documents to fail.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10

• ruby1.9 - 1.9.0.2-7ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-3443
• CVE-2008-3790

Related notices

• USN-651-1: ruby1.8, libruby1.8