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Gentoo Ruby Standard Denial of Service Advisory GLSA-201412-27

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Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Ruby allow context-dependent attackers to cause Denial of Service; updates are available.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Ruby, allowing context-dependent attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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security advisory denial of service Gentoo security issue gentoo software update ruby normal normal severity

Resolution

All Ruby 1.9 users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-1.9.3_p551"
All Ruby 2.0 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p598"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-0188 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0188 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-1004 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1004 [ 3 ] CVE-2011-1005 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1005 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-4815 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4815 [ 5 ] CVE-2012-4481 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4481 [ 6 ] CVE-2012-5371 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-5371 [ 7 ] CVE-2013-0269 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0269 [ 8 ] CVE-2013-1821 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1821 [ 9 ] CVE-2013-4164 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4164 [ 10 ] CVE-2014-8080 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8080 [ 11 ] CVE-2014-8090 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8090

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-27
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Normal
Title: Ruby: Denial of Service
Date: December 13, 2014
Bugs: #355439, #369141, #396301, #437366, #442580, #458776,
ID: 201412-27

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo security issue gentoo software update ruby normal normal severity

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Ruby, allowing context-dependent attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-lang/ruby < 2.0.0_p598 *>= 1.9.3_p551 >= 2.0.0_p598

Impact

===== A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or bypass security restrictions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.