Debian: New libopenssl-ruby packages fix insecure SSL
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1411-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff November 24, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : libopenssl-ruby Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : local/remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-5162 CVE-2007-5770 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-5162 It was discovered that the Ruby HTTP(S) module performs insufficient validation of SSL certificates, which may lead to man-in-the-middle attacks. CVE-2007-5770 It was discovered that the Ruby modules for FTP, Telnet, IMAP, POP and SMTP perform insufficient validation of SSL certificates, which may lead to man-in-the-middle attacks. The stable distribution (etch) no longer contains libopenssl-ruby. For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 0.1.4a-1sarge1. Packages for sparc will be provided later. We recommend that you upgrade your libopenssl-ruby packages. Upgrade instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian 3.1 (oldstable) - ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 4416 25ee3170c96536d66cd8640474bebf85 Size/MD5 checksum: 84122 303d0473fdb1480a0936a5661d8ba8e3 Size/MD5 checksum: 654 b1f510c66bbb4af526741c8d5911ffba alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 99566 17d715cd50ba41f6c139844de72b50a0 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 97832 3a57407b743683544483941f8739f276 arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 90504 80218918d52c9063de2679a0ef308350 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 102480 5b217e95e5acd0b41ef69f0fa373ed73 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 93628 6dd15a1fb32a3792811a7955083d835e ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 112496 8dd845a285ba4c46aa148d5e03e142cd m68k architecture (Motorola Mc680x0) Size/MD5 checksum: 94740 25df2cf97eb03a8f1a53c447cfdc7e73 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 83622 0637caea582cefd6994e9c1bfd105464 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 82978 a717ab31fb14a34d75c7209ba3ad0bda powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 91528 317a63aba89b5255f4bb8f2a3031d563 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 99954 578551946138e9b1cf38ff65dea29b53 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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