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Debian 4.0 DSA-1431-1 Low: Ruby-Gnome2 Format String Risk

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2007
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Enhance ruby-gnome2 on Debian to reduce potential code execution vulnerabilities stemming from input problems. Refer to Security Advisory DSA-1431-1 for comprehensive details.
It was discovered that ruby-gnome2, GNOME-related bindings for the Ruby language, didn't properly sanitize input prior to constructing dialogs. This could allow for the execution...
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Summary


For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.12.0-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.16.0-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-gnome2 package.


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: 7644 8a3111233b5a1db0c87253ce19abadbe
Size/MD5 checksum: 1121926 3aa40a574f0365361745d852494240a3
Size/MD5 checksum: 1254 b317e4356fae57ecf952295e36bf4f49

Architecture independent packages:

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