Debian Security Advisory
DSA-748-1 ruby1.8 -- bad default value
- Date Reported:
- 10 Jul 2005
- Affected Packages:
- ruby1.8
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1992.
- More information:
-
A vulnerability has been discovered in ruby1.8 that could allow arbitrary command execution on a server running the ruby xmlrpc server.
The old stable distribution (woody) did not include ruby1.8.
This problem is fixed for the current stable distribution (sarge) in version 1.8.2-7sarge1.
This problem is fixed for the unstable distribution in version 1.8.2-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.8 package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ri1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/irb1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-examples_1.8.2-7sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/rdoc1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-elisp_1.8.2-7sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/irb1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libtcltk-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libgdbm-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8-dev_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8-dbg_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libreadline-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.8/libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.2-7sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.