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Debian 3.1 DSA 748-1 Critical: Ruby1.8 Command Execution

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2005
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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory D
A vulnerability has been discovered in ruby1.8 that could allow arbitrary command execution on a server running the ruby xmlrpc server.
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Summary


This problem is fixed for the current stable distribution (sarge) in
version 1.8.2-7sarge1.

This problem is fixed for the unstable distribution in version 1.8.2-8.

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 (sarge)
- ------------------ sarge was released for alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1024 d14377473cdeb0a26538b6137faa5c66
Size/MD5 checksum: 529167 25de3bdf1775f90246f76e50a6aba24a
Size/MD...

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