ruby -- DNS spoofing vulnerability

Description:

The official ruby site reports:

resolv.rb allow remote attackers to spoof DNS answers. This risk can be reduced by randomness of DNS transaction IDs and source ports.

References:

• CVE name CVE-2008-1447
• URL: <http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/08/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-ruby/>

Affects:

• ruby >=1.8.*,1 <1.8.6.111_5,1
• ruby >=1.9.*,1 <1.9.1.0,1
• ruby+pthreads >=1.8.*,1 <1.8.6.111_5,1
• ruby+pthreads >=1.9.*,1 <1.9.1.0,1
• ruby+pthreads+oniguruma >=1.8.*,1 <1.8.6.111_5,1
• ruby+pthreads+oniguruma >=1.9.*,1 <1.9.1.0,1
• ruby+oniguruma >=1.8.*,1 <1.8.6.111_5,1
• ruby+oniguruma >=1.9.*,1 <1.9.1.0,1

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