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Debian 4.0 DSA-1410-1 Critical: Ruby SSL Certificate Issues Threat

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2007
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language
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Summary


It was discovered that the Ruby HTTP(S) module performs insufficient
validation of SSL certificates, which may lead to man-in-the-middle
attacks.

CVE-2007-5770

It was discovered that the Ruby modules for FTP, Telnet, IMAP, POP
and SMTP perform insufficient validation of SSL certificates, which
may lead to man-in-the-middle attacks.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.5-4etch1. Packages for sparc will be provided later.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.8.2-7sarge6. Packages for sparc will be provided later.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.8 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-g...

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