RHSA-2008:0561Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

Published
July 14, 2008
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2008-2376 →CVE-2008-2662 →CVE-2008-2663 →CVE-2008-2664 →CVE-2008-2725 →CVE-2008-2726 →

📋 Description

CVE-2008-2376 — ruby: integer overflows in rb_ary_fill() / Array#fill CVE-2008-2662 — ruby: Integer overflows in rb_str_buf_append() CVE-2008-2663 — ruby: Integer overflows in rb_ary_store() CVE-2008-2664 — ruby: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format() CVE-2008-2725 — ruby: integer overflow in rb_ary_splice/update/replace() - REALLOC_N CVE-2008-2726 — ruby: integer overflow in rb_ary_splice/update/replace() - beg + rlen

🎯 Affected products200

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • +170 more not shown

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

🔗 References (9)