0002957: Upgrade Ruby 2.1.5p273 to 2.2.4

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002957	Kali Linux	Tool Upgrade Request	public	2015-12-21 11:40	2015-12-21 13:34

Reporter	R4z3r	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	low	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	2.0

Summary	0002957: Upgrade Ruby 2.1.5p273 to 2.2.4
Description	Ruby, on a fully upgraded Kali 2.0 machine, is currently 2.1.5p273. The latest available is 2.24. Upgrading Ruby to 2.2.4 comes with the following benefits: ) Addresses CVE-2015-7551 (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/12/16/unsafe-tainted-string-usage-in-fiddle-and-dl-cve-2015-7551/) 2.) Addresses CVE-2015-3900 (http://blog.rubygems.org/2015/05/14/CVE-2015-3900.html) 3.)Addresses CVE-2015-1855 (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/04/13/ruby-openssl-hostname-matching-vulnerability/) 4.) Includes a fix for ffi build failure and memory leak issue on Symbol GC (See Bug #10686 — https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10686). 5.) Ruby can now collect symbol types reducing overall memory usage
Steps To Reproduce	1.) Update system using sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y ugrade && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade 2.) Open terminal 3.) Execute ruby -v 4.) System will print: ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-12-21 11:40	R4z3r	New Issue
2015-12-21 11:40	R4z3r	File Added: Screen-Shot-2015-12-21-at-6.38.50-AM.png
2015-12-21 11:42	R4z3r	Note Added: 0004418
2015-12-21 13:34	rhertzog	Relationship added	duplicate of 0002956
2015-12-21 13:34	rhertzog	Status	new => resolved
2015-12-21 13:34	rhertzog	Resolution	open => duplicate
2015-12-21 13:34	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2021-05-31 13:37	rhertzog	Category	Tool Upgrade => Tool Upgrade Request

R4z3r 2015-12-21 11:42 reporter ~0004418	Oops. Duplicate issue with 0002956. Received error message and thought it had not been submitted. Sorry