Ubuntu
ruby1.8 package

Precise vulnerable to hash collision DoS

Bug #943451 reported by Tyler Hicks on 2012-02-29

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ruby1.8 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

From Mitre's CVE-2011-4815 description:

"Ruby (aka CRuby) before 1.8.7-p357 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table. "

Precise's ruby1.8 package is at version 1.8.7.352-2. Debian testing and unstable are both currently unpatched at 1.8.7.352-2, too.

Related branches

lp://staging/ubuntu/precise/ruby1.8

CVE References

2011-4815

Revision history for this message

Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) wrote on 2012-02-29:

ruby1.8_1.8.7.352-2ubuntu1.debdiff Edit (8.5 KiB, text/plain)

Debdiff based on upstream fix.

Changed in ruby1.8 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
visibility:	private → public

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-03:

This bug was fixed in the package ruby1.8 - 1.8.7.352-2ubuntu1

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ruby1.8 (1.8.7.352-2ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Denial of service via crafted hash table keys
    (LP: #943451)
    - debian/patches/CVE-2011-4815.patch: Add randomness to the key hashing
      algorithm to prevent predictable results when inserting objects into a
      hash table. Based on upstream patch.
    - CVE-2011-4815
-- Tyler Hicks <email address hidden> Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:11:48 -0600