ELSA-2011-0910 Moderate: Oracle Linux ruby security update
Description
The VpMemAlloc function in bigdecimal.c in the BigDecimal class in Ruby 1.9.2-p136 and earlier, as used on Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.7 and other platforms, does not properly allocate memory, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving creation of a large BigDecimal value within a 64-bit process, related to an "integer truncation issue."
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-devel
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-docs
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-irb
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-libs
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-rdoc
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-ri
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-static
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-tcltk
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