Debian Security Advisory

DLA-299-1 ruby1.8 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
26 Aug 2015
Affected Packages:
ruby1.8
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-5147.
More information:

"sheepman" fixed a vulnerability in Ruby 1.8: DL::dlopen could open a library with tainted name even if $SAFE> 0.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in ruby1.8 1.8.7.302-2squeeze5.