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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200812-17">
+ <title>Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby that allow for
+ attacks including arbitrary code execution and Denial of Service.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">ruby</product>
+ <announced>2008-12-16</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2008-12-16</revised>
+ <bug>225465</bug>
+ <bug>236060</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-lang/ruby" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.8.6_p287-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.6_p287-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The
+ elaborate standard library includes an HTTP server ("WEBRick") and a
+ class for XML parsing ("REXML").
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Ruby interpreter
+ and its standard libraries. Drew Yao of Apple Product Security
+ discovered the following flaws:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Arbitrary code execution
+ or Denial of Service (memory corruption) in the rb_str_buf_append()
+ function (CVE-2008-2662).</li>
+ <li>Arbitrary code execution or Denial
+ of Service (memory corruption) in the rb_ary_stor() function
+ (CVE-2008-2663).</li>
+ <li>Memory corruption via alloca in the
+ rb_str_format() function (CVE-2008-2664).</li>
+ <li>Memory corruption
+ ("REALLOC_N") in the rb_ary_splice() and rb_ary_replace() functions
+ (CVE-2008-2725).</li>
+ <li>Memory corruption ("beg + rlen") in the
+ rb_ary_splice() and rb_ary_replace() functions (CVE-2008-2726).</li>
+ </ul> <p>
+ Furthermore, several other vulnerabilities have been reported:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Tanaka Akira reported an issue with resolv.rb that enables
+ attackers to spoof DNS responses (CVE-2008-1447).</li>
+ <li>Akira Tagoh
+ of RedHat discovered a Denial of Service (crash) issue in the
+ rb_ary_fill() function in array.c (CVE-2008-2376).</li>
+ <li>Several
+ safe level bypass vulnerabilities were discovered and reported by Keita
+ Yamaguchi (CVE-2008-3655).</li>
+ <li>Christian Neukirchen is credited
+ for discovering a Denial of Service (CPU consumption) attack in the
+ WEBRick HTTP server (CVE-2008-3656).</li>
+ <li>A fault in the dl module
+ allowed the circumvention of taintness checks which could possibly lead
+ to insecure code execution was reported by "sheepman"
+ (CVE-2008-3657).</li>
+ <li>Tanaka Akira again found a DNS spoofing
+ vulnerability caused by the resolv.rb implementation using poor
+ randomness (CVE-2008-3905).</li>
+ <li>Luka Treiber and Mitja Kolsek
+ (ACROS Security) disclosed a Denial of Service (CPU consumption)
+ vulnerability in the REXML module when dealing with recursive entity
+ expansion (CVE-2008-3790).</li>
+ </ul>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code,
+ spoof DNS responses, bypass Ruby's built-in security and taintness
+ checks, and cause a Denial of Service via crash or CPU exhaustion.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Ruby users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p287-r1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1447">CVE-2008-1447</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2376">CVE-2008-2376</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2662">CVE-2008-2662</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2663">CVE-2008-2663</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2664">CVE-2008-2664</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2725">CVE-2008-2725</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2726">CVE-2008-2726</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3655">CVE-2008-3655</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3656">CVE-2008-3656</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3657">CVE-2008-3657</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3790">CVE-2008-3790</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3905">CVE-2008-3905</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-09-21T11:43:41Z">
+ keytoaster
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-11-10T18:52:14Z">
+ hoffie
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-11-27T16:38:46Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>