GP lisper wrote:
> Laurent Gaffie discovered that Ruby did not properly check for memory
> allocation failures. (CVE-2008-3443)
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
That's not really Ruby, just it's 1.8 "C" implementation. Does it affect
the other Ruby implementations?
On 2008-12-17, Dimiter "malkia" Stanev <······@mac.com> wrote:
> GP lisper wrote:
>> Laurent Gaffie discovered that Ruby did not properly check for memory
>> allocation failures. (CVE-2008-3443)
>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
>
> That's not really Ruby, just it's 1.8 "C" implementation. Does it affect
> the other Ruby implementations?
But the 1.8 C source code is the document which defines the language.
Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2008-12-17, Dimiter "malkia" Stanev <······@mac.com> wrote:
>> GP lisper wrote:
>>> Laurent Gaffie discovered that Ruby did not properly check for memory
>>> allocation failures. (CVE-2008-3443)
>>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
>> That's not really Ruby, just it's 1.8 "C" implementation. Does it affect
>> the other Ruby implementations?
>
> But the 1.8 C source code is the document which defines the language.
If the ruby guys were smart enough to write their runtime in OCaml
instead of "C" this would've never happened.
On Dec 18, 2:11 am, "Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <······@mac.com>
wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> > On 2008-12-17, Dimiter "malkia" Stanev <······@mac.com> wrote:
> >> GP lisper wrote:
> >>> Laurent Gaffie discovered that Ruby did not properly check for memory
> >>> allocation failures. (CVE-2008-3443)
> >>> ** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**
> >> That's not really Ruby, just it's 1.8 "C" implementation. Does it affect
> >> the other Ruby implementations?
>
> > But the 1.8 C source code is the document which defines the language.
>
> If the ruby guys were smart enough to write their runtime in OCaml
> instead of "C" this would've never happened.
And how many people know OCaml and are willing to help debug OCaml
code?
bobi
Slobodan Blazeski wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2:11 am, "Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <······@mac.com>
> wrote:
>> Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>>> On 2008-12-17, Dimiter "malkia" Stanev <······@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> GP lisper wrote:
>>>>> Laurent Gaffie discovered that Ruby did not properly check for memory
>>>>> allocation failures. (CVE-2008-3443)
>>>>> ** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**
>>>> That's not really Ruby, just it's 1.8 "C" implementation. Does it affect
>>>> the other Ruby implementations?
>>> But the 1.8 C source code is the document which defines the language.
>> If the ruby guys were smart enough to write their runtime in OCaml
>> instead of "C" this would've never happened.
>
> And how many people know OCaml and are willing to help debug OCaml
> code?
>
> bobi
I was just kiddin' of course :) It only took one person to create Ruby,
yet not sure how much more to really do it.