Scientific Linux: Moderate Ruby Security Update for Remote Attacks

Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:48:24 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: ruby on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: ruby security update
Issue date:	2009-07-02
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-1558 CVE-2009-0642 CVE-2009-1904

A flaw was found in the way the Ruby POP module processed certain APOP
authentication requests. By sending certain responses when the Ruby APOP
module attempted to authenticate using APOP against a POP server, a
remote attacker could, potentially, acquire certain portions of a user's
authentication credentials. (CVE-2007-1558)

It was discovered that Ruby did not properly check the return value when
verifying X.509 certificates. This could, potentially, allow a remote
attacker to present an invalid X.509 certificate, and have Ruby treat it
as valid. (CVE-2009-0642)

A flaw was found in the way Ruby converted BigDecimal objects to Float
numbers. If an attacker were able to provide certain input for the
BigDecimal object converter, they could crash an application using this
class. (CVE-2009-1904)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.src.rpm
 i386:
irb-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
ruby-mode-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
irb-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-mode-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-7.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.src.rpm
 i386:
ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-mode-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-ri-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ruby-mode-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ruby-ri-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-5.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson