Package : ruby1.6 Vulnerability : missing privilege checks Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-3694 Debian Bug : 378029
It was discovered that the interpreter for the Ruby language does not properly maintain "safe levels" for aliasing, directory accesses and regular expressions, which might lead to a bypass of security restrictions.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.8-12sarge2.
The unstable distribution (sid) does no longer contain ruby1.6 packages.
We recommend that you upgrade your Ruby packages.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------