Ruby vulnerabilities

On June 25, 2008, in development, security, by eugenekogan

There are already plenty of people talking/screaming/crying about the recent bugs found in the Ruby programming language:

The list of CVEs created to track these bugs:

The funny thing is, these vulnerabilities were created in the run-time implementation of Ruby, which is itself written in C. So it’s really not all that surprising, considering how hard it is to write secure, large, bug-free C programs.

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