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Debian: DSA 1139-1 Critical: Ruby Privilege Escalation Issue

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Calendar Grey August 3, 2006
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Upgrade to the most recent ruby1.6 versions to mitigate security risks regarding privilege escalation on your Debian system.
Updated package.

Summary


The unstable distribution (sid) does no longer contain ruby1.6 packages.

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: 995 b893a055e7855cb9ae612051537e5b08
Size/MD5 checksum: 78722 7e8d8da6029b1d7bcf6d3bcd1dfd77d9
Size/MD5 checksum: 1022364 aa1e272added83a5206c565d62c9c8ed

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 174792 e15cd6866bdecaed5c1f2e17aa1779bf
Size/MD5 checksum: 152608 b669d36794a6a42...

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