Ruby: Denial of service

Background

Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or bypass security restrictions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ruby 1.9 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-1.9.3_p551"

All Ruby 2.0 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p598"