Debian 3.1: DSA-1235-1 Critical: Ruby CGI Denial Of Service
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December 13, 2006
A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in the CGI library included with Ruby, the intepreted scripting langauge for quick and easy object-orientated programming.
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Summary
We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.8 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 3.1 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1024 912f2bb9a68ba4c1dcad47ebded0946f
Size/MD5 checksum: 3623780 4bc5254bec262d18cf1ceef03aae8bdf
Size/MD5 checksum: 537107 452d8fc55dd8b09fcce1fa843146316e
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 234904 3c678d4f692f0a815f8e123ce1ec5cbc
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