Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201412-27 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Ruby, allowing context-dependent attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. Versions less than 2.0.0_p598 are affected.
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Apple Security Advisory 2012-05-09-1 - OS X Lion v10.7.4 and Security Update 2012-002 is now available and addresses multiple security issues. An issue existed in the handling of network account logins. The login process recorded sensitive information in the system log, where other users of the system could read it. A temporary file race condition issue existed in blued's initialization routine. There are known attacks on the confidentiality of SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 when a cipher suite uses a block cipher in CBC mode. curl disabled the 'empty fragment' countermeasure which prevented these attacks. This issue is addressed by enabling empty fragments. A data injection issue existed in curl's handling of URLs. This issue is addressed through improved validation of URLs. This issue does not affect systems prior to OS X Lion. Various other vulnerabilities have been addressed.
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Ubuntu Security Notice 1377-1 - Drew Yao discovered that the WEBrick HTTP server was vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks when displaying error pages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to run arbitrary web script. Drew Yao discovered that Ruby's BigDecimal module did not properly allocate memory on 64-bit platforms. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-0910-01 - Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks. A flaw was found in the way large amounts of memory were allocated on 64-bit systems when using the BigDecimal class. A context-dependent attacker could use this flaw to cause memory corruption, causing a Ruby application that uses the BigDecimal class to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. This issue did not affect 32-bit systems. A race condition flaw was found in the remove system entries method in the FileUtils module. If a local user ran a Ruby script that uses this method, a local attacker could use this flaw to delete arbitrary files and directories accessible to that user via a symbolic link attack. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-0909-01 - Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks. A flaw was found in the way large amounts of memory were allocated on 64-bit systems when using the BigDecimal class. A context-dependent attacker could use this flaw to cause memory corruption, causing a Ruby application that uses the BigDecimal class to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. This issue did not affect 32-bit systems. A race condition flaw was found in the remove system entries method in the FileUtils module. If a local user ran a Ruby script that uses this method, a local attacker could use this flaw to delete arbitrary files and directories accessible to that user via a symbolic link attack. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-097 - Cross-site scripting vulnerability in the WEBrick HTTP server in Ruby allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URI that triggers a UTF-7 error page. The FileUtils.remove_entry_secure method in Ruby allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack. The safe-level feature in Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the Exception#to_s method, as demonstrated by changing an intended pathname. The VpMemAlloc function in bigdecimal.c in the BigDecimal class in Ruby does not properly allocate memory, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via vectors involving creation of a large BigDecimal value within a 64-bit process, related to an integer truncation issue.
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