irb, ruby security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0961 Updated ruby packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Ruby is an interpreted scripting languag...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

Updated ruby packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. A flaw was...

Net: HTTP insufficient verification of SSL certificate

The connect method in lib/net/http.rb in the 1 Net::HTTP and 2 Net::HTTPS libraries in Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 does not verify that the commonName CN field in a server certificate matches the domain name in an HTTPS request, which makes it easier for remote attackers to intercept SSL transmissions v...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

Updated ruby packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. An SSL certifica...

Moderate: ruby security update

1.8.1-7.EL4.8.1 - security fixes 320371 - ruby-1.8.1-cgi-CVE-2006-6303.patch: fix an infinite loop with certain HTTP request. - ruby-1.8.1-CVE-2007-5162.patch: fix an insufficient verification of SSL certificate...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : firefox, mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities (USN-296-2)

USN-296-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Firefox for the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS release. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 5.04 and Ubuntu 5.10. For reference, these are the details of the original USN : Jonas Sicking discovered that under some circumstances persisted XUL...

Ubuntu 5.10 : mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-350-1)

This update upgrades Thunderbird from 1.0.8 to 1.5.0.7. This step was necessary since the 1.0.x series is not supported by upstream any more. Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious email...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-296-1)

Jonas Sicking discovered that under some circumstances persisted XUL attributes are associated with the wrong URL. A malicious website could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. MFSA 2006-35, CVE-2006-2775 Paul Nickerson discovered that content-defined setters o...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-352-1)

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious email containing JavaScript. Please note that JavaScript is disabled by default for emails, and it is not recommended to enable it. CVE-2006-4253,...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-351-1)

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious web page containing JavaScript. CVE-2006-4253, CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566, CVE-2006-4568, CVE-2006-4569 CVE-2006-4571 The NSS library did not...

Fedora 7 : ruby-1.8.6.110-1.fc7 (2007-2406)

Thu Oct 4 2007 Akira TAGOH - 1.8.6.110-1 - New upstream release. - ruby-r12567.patch: removed. - ruby-1.8.6-CVE-2007-5162.patch: security fix for Net::HTTP that is insufficient verification of SSL certificate. 313791 - Wed Jul 25 2007 Akira TAGOH - 1.8.6.36-3 - ruby-r12567.patch: backport patch...

Fedora Core 6 : ruby-1.8.5.113-1.fc6 (2007-718)

Thu Oct 4 2007 Akira TAGOH - 1.8.5.113-1 - New upstream release. - ruby-1.8.5-CVE-2007-5162.patch: security fix for Net::HTTP that is insufficient verification of SSL certificate. 313801 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora...

GLSA-200701-06 : w3m: Format string vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200701-06 w3m: Format string vulnerability w3m in -dump or -backend mode does not correctly handle printf format string specifiers in the Common Name CN field of an X.509 SSL certificate. Impact : An attacker could entice a user t...

FreeBSD : w3m -- format string vulnerability (9347d82d-9a66-11db-b271-000e35248ad7)

An anonymous person reports : w3m-0.5.1 crashes when using the -dump or -backend options to open a HTTPS URL with a SSL certificate where the CN contains '%n%n%n%n%n%n'. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

USN-399-1: w3m vulnerabilities

A format string vulnerability was discovered in w3m. If a user were tricked into visiting an HTTPS URL protected by a specially crafted SSL certificate, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

CVE-2006-6772

Format string vulnerability in the inputAnswer function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.2, when run with the dump or backend option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Common Name CN field of an SSL certificate associated with an https URL...

CVE-2006-6772

Format string vulnerability in the inputAnswer function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.2, when run with the dump or backend option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Common Name CN field of an SSL certificate associated with an https URL...

CVE-2006-6772

Format string vulnerability in the inputAnswer function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.2, when run with the dump or backend option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Common Name CN field of an SSL certificate associated with an https URL...

CVE-2006-6772

Format string vulnerability in the inputAnswer function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.2, when run with the dump or backend option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Common Name CN field of an SSL certificate associated with an https URL...

CVE-2006-6772

Format string vulnerability in the inputAnswer function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.2, when run with the dump or backend option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Common Name CN field of an SSL certificate associated with an https URL...