USN-1902-1: Ruby vulnerability

Publication date

9 July 2013

Overview

An attacker could trick Ruby into trusting a rogue server.


Packages

  • ruby1.8 - Object-oriented scripting language
  • ruby1.9.1 - Object-oriented scripting language

Details

William (B.J.) Snow Orvis discovered that Ruby incorrectly verified the
hostname in SSL certificates. An attacker could trick Ruby into trusting a
rogue server certificate, which was signed by a trusted certificate
authority, to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack.

William (B.J.) Snow Orvis discovered that Ruby incorrectly verified the
hostname in SSL certificates. An attacker could trick Ruby into trusting a
rogue server certificate, which was signed by a trusted certificate
authority, to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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