Ruby 1.9.1-p376 is released

Posted by Yugui on 7 Dec 2009

Ruby 1.9.1-p376 just has been released. This is a patch level release of Ruby 1.9.1 and includes the fix of CVE-2009-4124.

CVE-2009-4124

The previous release, Ruby 1.9.1-p243 has a security vulnerability that allows heap overflow. This vulnerability was found by Emmanouel Kellinis, KPMG London.

I recommend all Ruby 1.9.1 users to upgrade to p376. But the vulnerability does not affect Ruby 1.8 series.

Other fixes

In addition, 1.9.1-p376 includes > 100 bug fixes.

• Irb extension commands had been broken. It was fixed.
• Ripper had not been able to parse some Ruby codes. It was fixed.
• Fixed build failures on AIX.
• Some bug fixes of Matrix.
• Can load gems which is installed in an user's home directory.
• Some method became returning a string with a correct encoding.

See the ChangeLog for more detail.

• <URL:https://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_9_1/ChangeLog>

Location

• <URL:https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p376.tar.bz2>

  SIZE

  7293106 bytes

  MD5

  e019ae9c643c5efe91be49e29781fb94

  SHA256

  79164e647e23bb7c705195e0075ce6020c30dd5ec4f8c8a12a100fe0eb0d6783

• <URL:https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p376.tar.gz>

  SIZE

  9073007 bytes

  MD5

  ebb20550a11e7f1a2fbd6fdec2a3e0a3

  SHA256

  58b8fc1645283fcf3d5be195dffcaf55b7c85cbc210074273b57b835409b21ca

• <URL:https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p376.zip>

  SIZE

  10337871 bytes

  MD5

  d4d5e62f65cb92a281f1569a7f25371b

  SHA256

  486d3efdab269040ce7142964ba3a4e0d46f0a5b812136bcac7e5bafc726c14e