ruby: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format()

The rbstrformat function in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2 allows context-dependent attackers to trigger memory corruption via unspecified vectors related to alloca, a different issue than CVE-2008-2662,...

ruby: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format()

The rbstrformat function in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2 allows context-dependent attackers to trigger memory corruption via unspecified vectors related to alloca, a different issue than CVE-2008-2662,...

ruby security update

1.6.8-12.el3 - ruby-1.6.8-string-CVE-2008-2664.patch: wrong patch. Fix a segfault. 1.6.8-11.el3 - CVE-2008-2376: Integer overflow in rbaryfill. 1.6.8-10.el3 - security fixes. 451931 - CVE-2006-6303: Fix the infinite loop issue with the malformed multipart data in cgi.rb. - CVE-2008-2663: Fix the...

CVE-2008-2664

The rbstrformat function in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2 allows context-dependent attackers to trigger memory corruption via unspecified vectors related to alloca, a different issue than CVE-2008-2662,...

gtar -- GNU TAR safer_name_suffix Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: GNUs tar and cpio utilities are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because of insecure use of the alloca function. Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to crash the affected utilities and possibly to execute code but this has not been confirmed...

GNU TAR 1.15.91 CPIO 2.5.90 - safer_name_suffix Remote Denial of Service

GNU TAR 1.15.91 CPIO 2.5.90 - safernamesuffix Remote Denial of Service // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26445/info GNU's tar and cpio utilities are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because of insecure use of the 'alloca' function. Successfully exploiting this issue allows...