Package: ruby1.8
Version: 1.8.6.111-4
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

WEBrick, a standard library of Ruby to implement HTTP servers, has file
access vulnerability[1]. Attackers may access private files. The fixed
versions have been released by the upstream.

Vulnerable versions

1.8 series
  * 1.8.4 and all prior versions
  * 1.8.5-p114 and all prior versions (etch)
  * 1.8.6-p113 and all prior versions (testing)
1.9 series
  * 1.9.0-1 and all prior versions (etch and testing)

[1] 
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/03/03/webrick-file-access-vulnerability/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP (charmap=EUC-JP)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ruby1.8 depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.7-6       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libruby1.8                   1.8.6.111-4 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.

ruby1.8 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information



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