TITLE:
Mandriva update for ruby

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19772

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19772/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandriva Linux 2006
http://secunia.com/product/9020/

DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for ruby. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

For more information:
SA16904

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

-- Mandrivalinux 2006 --

3144dc749cdb9da398064c2cf34103fe 
2006.0/RPMS/ruby-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
1bf85e3cd1456dbda21fd95f1626b28f 
2006.0/RPMS/ruby-devel-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
80000d9bf73c957174c6ce8a7c637147 
2006.0/RPMS/ruby-doc-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
272d3970702ec07e44a0469d1f431380 
2006.0/RPMS/ruby-tk-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
5cd34c71849ac8eebe80c6389178a5a8 
2006.0/SRPMS/ruby-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.src.rpm

-- Mandrivalinux 2006/X86_64 --

c032856335423079f3a68b7eeaeda281 
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ruby-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
aa44a1b8179d94c3ef4504d504fdb01b 
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ruby-devel-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
a409a90806495d8a074fa15d9191d053 
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ruby-doc-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
4a13e6ade495ac6c2d6068d88674d396 
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ruby-tk-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
5cd34c71849ac8eebe80c6389178a5a8 
x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/ruby-1.8.2-7.2.20060mdk.src.rpm

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:079

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA16904:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16904/

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