Ubuntu Security Notice USN-691-1
16th December, 2008
ruby1.9 vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 8.10
Software description
- ruby1.9
Details
Laurent Gaffie discovered that Ruby did not properly check for memory
allocation failures. If a user or automated system were tricked into
running a malicious script, an attacker could cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2008-3443)
This update also fixes a regression in the upstream patch previously
applied to fix CVE-2008-3790. The regression would cause parsing of
some XML documents to fail.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 8.10:
- ruby1.9 1.9.0.2-7ubuntu1.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.