Slackware 15.0: 2023-090-01 Critical ReDoS Security Update for Ruby
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March 31, 2023
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-3.0.6-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: ReDoS vulnerability in URI. ReDoS vulnerability in Time. For more information, see: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/03/28/redos-in-uri-cve-2023-28755/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/03/30/redos-in-time-cve-2023-28756/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28755 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28756 (* 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 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:
22ffa16679294ddce3265d913f2fac20 ruby-3.0.6-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
0724127e313f586f6677e12e0316a070 ruby-3.0.6-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
d39ba074e9714480e07880be54466086 d/ruby-3.2.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
94a42ee743ed273628c09d9242ff125f d/ruby-3.2.2-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ruby-3.0.6-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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