Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for ruby. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, manipulate certain data, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for ruby
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45109
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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for ruby. This fixes multiple
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious
people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain
security restrictions, manipulate certain data, cause a DoS (Denial
of Service), and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA37949
SA41003
SA43420
SA43434
SA44638
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2011:0909-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0909.html
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