Date:         Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:56:44 -0500
Reply-To:     Troy Dawson 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Troy Dawson 
Subject:      Security ERRATA for ruby on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: "scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov"
          

Synopsis:	Moderate: ruby security update
Issue date:	2008-07-14
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-2662 CVE-2008-2663 CVE-2008-2664
                 CVE-2008-2725 CVE-2008-2726 CVE-2008-2376

Multiple integer overflows leading to a heap overflow were discovered in
the array- and string-handling code used by Ruby. An attacker could use
these flaws to crash a Ruby application or, possibly, execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the Ruby application using untrusted inputs in
array or string operations. (CVE-2008-2376, CVE-2008-2662, CVE-2008-2663,
CVE-2008-2725, CVE-2008-2726)

It was discovered that Ruby used the alloca() memory allocation function in
the format (%) method of the String class without properly restricting
maximum string length. An attacker could use this flaw to crash a Ruby
application or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
Ruby application using long, untrusted strings as format strings.
(CVE-2008-2664)

SL 4.x

     SRPMS:
ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.src.rpm
     i386:
irb-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
ruby-mode-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
     x86_64:
irb-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-mode-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

     SRPMS:
ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.src.rpm
     i386:
ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-mode-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-ri-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
     x86_64:
ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-mode-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-ri-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson