By unknown of Ruby News 6 days ago.

Object taint bypassing in DL and Fiddle in Ruby (CVE-2013-2065)

And some small bugfixes are also included.

See tickets and ChangeLog for details.

Download

You can download this release from:

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p429.tar.bz2 SIZE: 10042323 bytes MD5: c2b2de5ef15ea9b1aaa3152f9112af1b SHA256: 9d8949c24cf6fe810b65fb466076708b842a3b0bac7799f79b7b6a8791dc2a70

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p429.tar.gz …

• Topics: Ruby, Fiddle
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By unknown of Ruby News 6 days ago.

All ruby 1.9 versions prior to ruby 1.9.3 patchlevel 426

All ruby 2.0 versions prior to ruby 2.0.0 patchlevel 195

prior to trunk revision 40728

ruby 1.8 versions are not affected.

Credits

Thanks to Vit Ondruch for reporting this issue.

History

Originally published at 2013-05-14 13:00:00 (UTC)

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