__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Ruby [Debian Security Advisory DSA-860-1] October 12, 2005 13:00 GMT Number Q-016 [REVISED 13 October 2005] [REVISED 26 Oct 2005] [REVISED 31 Oct 2005] [REVISED 29 Nov 2005] ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: There is a bug in Ruby. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge Red Hat Desktop (v. 3) & (v. 4) Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, WS (v. 3) & (v. 4) Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor SGI ProPack 3 Service Pack 6 for SGI Altix family of systems DAMAGE: Can cause illegal program code to bypass the safe level and taint flag protections check and be executed. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate versions. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. Can cause illegal program code to bypass the ASSESSMENT: safe level and taint flag protections check and be executed. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/q-016.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: Debian Security Advisory DSA-860-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-860 ADDITIONAL LINKS: Debian Security Advisory DSA-862-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-862 US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#160012 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/160012 Debian Security Advisory DSA-864-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-864 Red Hat RHSA-2005:809-6 https://rhn.redhat.com/errate/RHSA-2005-809.html SGI Security Advisory Number 20051003-02-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051003-02-U.asc SGI Security Advisory Update #51, Number 20051101-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051101-01-U.asc CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2005-2337 ______________________________________________________________________________ REVISION HISTORY: 07/22/2005 - revised to add a link to Debian Security Advisory DSA-864-1 10/26/2005 - revised to add a link to Red Hat RHSA-2005:809-6 for Red Hat Desktop (v. 3) & (v. 4), Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, WS (v. 3) & (v. 4), and for Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor. 10/31/2005 - revised to add a link to SGI Security Advisory Number 20051003-02-U, providing patches for this vulnerability. 11/29/2005 - added a link SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 Security Update #51 (#20051101-01-U) that provides Patch 10242 for SGI ProPack 3 Service Pack 6. [***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-860-1 *****] Debian Security Advisory DSA-860-1 ruby -- programming error Date Reported: 11 Oct 2005 Affected Packages: ruby Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 332742. In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-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 3.0 (woody) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5.diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7.orig.tar.gz Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/irb_1.6.7-3woody5_all.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-elisp_1.6.7-3woody5_all.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-examples_1.6.7-3woody5_all.deb Alpha: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_alpha.deb ARM: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_arm.deb Intel IA-32: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_i386.deb Intel IA-64: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_ia64.deb HPPA: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_hppa.deb Motorola 680x0: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_m68k.deb Big endian MIPS: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_mips.deb Little endian MIPS: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_mipsel.deb PowerPC: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_powerpc.deb IBM S/390: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_s390.deb Sun Sparc: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libcurses-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libgdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libnkf-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libpty-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libreadline-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsdbm-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libsyslog-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtcltk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/libtk-ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby/ruby-dev_1.6.7-3woody5_sparc.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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