http://www.matasano.com/log/1079/rubys-vulnerability-handling-debacle/

Ezra: none of the official releases are non segfaulting, we're running p114
with backported sec patches

-Matt

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Matt Aimonetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I heard a lot of people not recommending to switch to 1.8.7 since it
> backported some stuff from 1.9 and broke some 1.8.x stuff
> I believe the segfault you are referring to were noticed by a lot of
> people, Engine Yard had a patch but I don't know if it got merged in.
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Rob Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Cheri,
>>  Looks like current 'Stable' Ruby is Ruby 1.8.7-p22... are you sure
>> the issue wasn't already fixed?  Also how confidant are you that
>> you're dealing with a Ruby bug and not a packaging bug.  Often when
>> something is seen by just a few linux users, it is in the (Debian,
>> Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, etc) package and performance patches and not
>> in the Ruby code itself.  If it were me, I would download the latest
>> stable, complile it, and then try starting script/server with that
>> Ruby version.  If that works, then install that version and off you go
>> =-)
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:08 AM, liquid_rails <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Does anybody know how long it generally takes the Ruby Core Team to
>> > come up with a fix for bugs like this, or if they're even working on
>> > it?
>> >
>> >
>> http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/513-segmentation-fault-ruby-1-8-6-i686-linux-patchlevel-230#ticket-
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Cheri
>> > >
>> >
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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