Ubuntu pushed patches for the aforementioned Ruby vulnerabilities last night. apt-get to get them in a snap. Thanks for the quick response Ubuntu team!
Nate Clark is right. The risk of the recently announced Ruby vulnerabilities may or may not be high, but let’s not take any chances.
He’s done a quick and good how to on upgrading Ubuntu servers. Check it out. Nate Rules.
New stuff includes Firefox 3, Thunderbird 2, OpenOffice.org 2.3 and Evolution 2.12 on the Desktop side, Samba 3.0.28, xen-3.2 and an upgraded kernel with lots of driver updates on the server side of the system.
Grab it from centos.org and email us at support@imapenguin.com if you need help installing or upgrading.
Bleh, there are some nasty ruby vulnerabilities out in the wild right now. Details are here. We’ll post an update as Linux distributions get patches to let you know who needs to take action to get fixes.
We’re compiling ruby from source for the time being on production machines until updates appear.
If you need help, it’s support@imapenguin.com