Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Slackware, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in Ruby. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2428

Affected Products

Slackware 11.0
Slackware 12.0
Slackware 12.1
Slackware 12.2

Solution

Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/ruby-1.8.6_p368-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/ruby-1.8.6_p368-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 12.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/ruby-1.8.6_p368-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 12.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/ruby-1.8.7_p160-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/d/ruby-1.8.7_p160-i486-1.tgz

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1222
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.402772

ChangeLog

2009-05-04 : Initial release

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