Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1235-1 ruby1.8 -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 13 Dec 2006
- Affected Packages:
- ruby1.8
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 398457.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5467. - More information:
-
A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in the CGI library included with Ruby, the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.2-7sarge5.
We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.8 package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (stable)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/rdoc1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-elisp_1.8.2-7sarge5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/irb1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ri1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-examples_1.8.2-7sarge5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-elisp_1.8.2-7sarge5_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.