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Debian: DSA-1412-1 Critical: Ruby SSL Certificate Validation Issue

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2007
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Update the Ruby1.9 packages on Debian systems to resolve SSL certificate verification problems that could potentially enable man-in-the-middle attacks.
It was discovered that the Ruby HTTP(S) module performs insufficient validation of SSL certificates, which may lead to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Summary


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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