[Secure-testing-team] Bug#564646: ruby1.9.1: WEBrick control characters vulnerability
Daigo Moriwaki
daigo at debian.org
Mon Jan 11 00:19:19 UTC 2010
Package: ruby1.9.1
Version: 1.9.1.376-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole
The upstream has released a vulnerability fix in WEBrick, a part of Ruby's
standard library. WEBrick lets attackers to inject malicious escap e sequences
to its logs, making it possible for dangerous control characters to be executed
on a victim's terminal emulator.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP (charmap=EUC-JP)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ruby1.9.1 depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libruby1.9.1 1.9.1.376-1 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ruby1.9.1 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ruby1.9.1 suggests:
ii rdoc1.9.1 1.9.1.376-1 Generate documentation from Ruby s
ii ri1.9.1 1.9.1.376-1 Ruby Interactive reference (for Ru
ii ruby1.9.1-examples 1.9.1.376-1 Examples for Ruby 1.9
ii rubygems1.9.1 1.3.5-2 package management framework for R
-- no debconf information
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