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ruby: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CVE-2008-3905 CVE-2008-3790 CVE-2008-3443
Created:October 10, 2008 Updated:November 7, 2008
Description: From the CVE entries:

CVE-2008-3905 - resolv.rb in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 r18423 and earlier uses sequential transaction IDs and constant source ports for DNS requests, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof DNS responses, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1447.

CVE-2008-3790 - The REXML module in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document with recursively nested entities, aka an "XML entity explosion."

CVE-2008-3443 - The regular expression engine (regex.c) in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via multiple long requests to a Ruby socket, related to memory allocation failure, and as demonstrated against Webrick.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8738 2008-10-09
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8736 2008-10-09
Ubuntu USN-651-1 2008-10-10
Debian DSA-1651-1 2008-10-12
Debian DSA-1652-1 2008-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0895-02 2008-10-21
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0896-01 2008-10-21
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0897-01 2008-10-21
CentOS CESA-2008:0896 2008-10-21
CentOS CESA-2008:0897 2008-10-24
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:226 2008-11-06

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