Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in various Redhat products, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or bypass security restrictions. These issues are caused by errors in Ruby. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3340 - VUPEN/ADV-2006-4855

Affected Products

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://rhn.redhat.com/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3838
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0965.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html

ChangeLog

2007-11-13 : Initial release

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