CVE-2008-1145

Publication date 4 March 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8 before 1.8.5-p115 and 1.8.6-p114, and 1.9 through 1.9.0-1, when running on systems that support backslash (\) path separators or case-insensitive file names, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via (1) "..%5c" (encoded backslash) sequences or (2) filenames that match patterns in the :NondisclosureName option.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ruby1.8 7.10 gutsy
Not affected
7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected
ruby1.9 7.10 gutsy
Not affected
7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

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Only affects systems with backslash-separated paths, or case-insensitive filenames. Not us.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ruby1.8