It was discovered that the Ruby HTTP(S) module performs insufficient
validation of SSL certificates, which may lead to man-in-the-middle
attacks.
CVE-2007-5770
It was discovered that the Ruby modules for FTP, Telnet, IMAP, POP
and SMTP perform insufficient validation of SSL certificates, which
may lead to man-in-the-middle attacks.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.9.0+20060609-1etch1. Updated packages for hppa and sparc will
be provided later.
The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain ruby1.9 packages.
We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.9 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 pac...
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