RHSA-2008:0897Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

Published
October 21, 2008
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (7)

CVE-2008-1145 →CVE-2008-3443 →CVE-2008-3655 →CVE-2008-3656 →CVE-2008-3657 →CVE-2008-3790 →CVE-2008-3905 →

📋 Description

CVE-2008-1145 — ruby: webrick directory traversal CVE-2008-3443 — ruby: Memory allocation failure in Ruby regex engine (remotely exploitable DoS) CVE-2008-3655 — ruby: multiple insufficient safe mode restrictions CVE-2008-3656 — ruby: WEBrick DoS vulnerability (CPU consumption) CVE-2008-3657 — ruby: missing "taintness" checks in dl module CVE-2008-3790 — ruby: DoS vulnerability in the REXML module CVE-2008-3905 — ruby: use of predictable source port and transaction id in DNS requests done by resolv.rb module

🎯 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_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • irb-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • ruby-0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1.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)