Debian Security Advisory
DSA-860-1 ruby -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 11 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- ruby
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 332742.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2337.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#160012. - More information:
-
Yutaka Oiwa discovered a bug in Ruby, the interpreter for the object-oriented scripting language, that can cause illegal program code to bypass the safe level and taint flag protections check and be executed. The following matrix lists the fixed versions in our distributions:
old stable (woody) stable (sarge) unstable (sid) ruby 1.6.7-3woody5 n/a n/a ruby1.6 n/a 1.6.8-12sarge1 1.6.8-13 ruby1.8 n/a 1.8.2-7sarge2 1.8.3-1 We recommend that you upgrade your ruby packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/irb_1.6.7-3woody5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-elisp_1.6.7-3woody5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-examples_1.6.7-3woody5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-elisp_1.6.7-3woody5_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.