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Slackware 15.0 Advisory 2022-103-01 Moderate: Ruby Double Free Issue

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent ruby modules made available for Slackware tackle urgent concerns regarding double memory deallocation and buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
New ruby packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ruby-3.0.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: Double free in Regexp compilation. Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28738 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28739 (* Security fix *)

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 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 00760649741964120dadf45c90b7a42b ruby-3.0.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 4b025a849db7f5639770e74f4e7a8500 ruby-3.0.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: b9cb42c22e8247f2528fc671d3468833 d/ruby-3.1.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 55cce6024711a901fcb1375f56483715 d/ruby-3.1.2-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ruby-3.0.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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