Slackware 14.0 Ruby Security Advisory: 2012-341-04 Critical DoS
slackware
December 7, 2012
New ruby packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ruby-1.9.3_p327-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a hash-flooding DoS vulnerability and many other bugs. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5371 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 13.1 package:
f068b60ce839e3ac94aee7466216c86c ruby-1.9.3_p327-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package:
58296a2d8ab490e22a9918c7fd587de6 ruby-1.9.3_p327-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package:
323bbc1ea3a430a8248810979e666281 ruby-1.9.3_p327-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
e1a3d37d058db4dc0a28a537b1c894c3 ruby-1.9.3_p327-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package:
bb4a5f20ed0a5e8a44c164ac1dfcff9f ruby-1.9.3_p327-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
7acfbb52a41f27b63002fdadf789a651 ruby-1.9.3_p327-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
04e051d9f07ff4874c16544a63c2f9a5 d/ruby-1.9.3_p327-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
be1e77ca31b65eefdc6481e443de0b17 d/ruby-1.9.3_p327-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ruby-1.9.3_p327-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
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