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12-16-2008

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USN-691-1: Ruby vulnerability

Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2008-3443, CVE-2008-3790

Description:
===========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-691-1 December 16, 2008ruby1.9 vulnerabilityCVE-2008-3443, CVE-2008-3790===========================================================A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:Ubuntu 8.10This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions ofKubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to thefollowing package versions:Ubuntu 8.10: ruby1.9 1.9.0.2-7ubuntu1.1In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect thenecessary changes.Details follow:Laurent Gaffie discovered that Ruby did not properly check for memoryallocation failures. If a user or automated system were tricked intorunning a malicious script, an attacker could cause a denial ofservice. (CVE-2008-3443)This update also fixes a regression in the upstream patch previouslyapplied to fix CVE-2008-3790. The regression would cause parsing ofsome XML documents to fail.

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