DSA-864-1 ruby1.8 -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-864-1 ruby1.8 -- programming error

Date Reported:

13 Oct 2005

Affected Packages:

ruby1.8

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 332742.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2337.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#160012.

More information:

Yutaka Oiwa discovered a bug in Ruby, the interpreter for the object-oriented scripting language, that can cause illegal program code to bypass the safe level and taint flag protections check and be executed. The following matrix lists the fixed versions in our distributions:

	old stable (woody)	stable (sarge)	unstable (sid)
ruby	1.6.7-3woody5	n/a	n/a
ruby1.6	n/a	1.6.8-12sarge1	1.6.8-13
ruby1.8	n/a	1.8.2-7sarge2	1.8.3-1

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/irb1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/rdoc1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ri1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-elisp_1.8.2-7sarge2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-examples_1.8.2-7sarge2_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.