Ruby 2.5.1 Released
Posted by naruse on 28 Mar 2018
Ruby 2.5.1 has been released.
This release includes some bug fixes and some security fixes.
- CVE-2017-17742: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick
- CVE-2018-6914: Unintentional file and directory creation with directory traversal in tempfile and tmpdir
- CVE-2018-8777: DoS by large request in WEBrick
- CVE-2018-8778: Buffer under-read in String#unpack
- CVE-2018-8779: Unintentional socket creation by poisoned NUL byte in UNIXServer and UNIXSocket
- CVE-2018-8780: Unintentional directory traversal by poisoned NUL byte in Dir
- Multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems
There are also some bug fixes. See commit logs for more details.
Download
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https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.5/ruby-2.5.1.tar.gz
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https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.5/ruby-2.5.1.zip
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https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.5/ruby-2.5.1.tar.bz2
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https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.5/ruby-2.5.1.tar.xz
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Release Comment
Many committers, developers, and users who provided bug reports helped us to make this release. Thanks for their contributions.
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