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Debian: DSA 864-1 Critical Ruby Vulnerability Safety Bypass Alert

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2005
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Updated package.
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security advisory critical debian ruby update safety bypass

Summary


We recommend that you upgrade your 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 GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1024 02c4885bf1d3d6272be11978e8d9418d
Size/MD5 checksum: 531380 ce444a411b23c9d971653956b2225448
Size/MD5 checksum: 3623780 4bc5254bec262d18cf1ceef03aae8bdf

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 166200 950967e1aebed573ce5dc7dfb3aa92c5
Size/MD5 checksum: 234134 c88180c3fa145702ee4b06d2249a807d
Size/MD5 checksum: 704562 2d2569f0b3ff912984...

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