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GP lisper

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Dec 17, 2008, 2:14:30 PM12/17/08
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Laurent Gaffie discovered that Ruby did not properly check for memory
allocation failures. (CVE-2008-3443)
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Dimiter "malkia" Stanev

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Dec 17, 2008, 5:34:34 PM12/17/08
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That's not really Ruby, just it's 1.8 "C" implementation. Does it affect
the other Ruby implementations?

Kaz Kylheku

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Dec 17, 2008, 6:07:56 PM12/17/08
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But the 1.8 C source code is the document which defines the language.

Dimiter "malkia" Stanev

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Dec 17, 2008, 8:11:32 PM12/17/08
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If the ruby guys were smart enough to write their runtime in OCaml
instead of "C" this would've never happened.

Slobodan Blazeski

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Dec 18, 2008, 9:35:06 AM12/18/08
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On Dec 18, 2:11 am, "Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <mal...@mac.com>

And how many people know OCaml and are willing to help debug OCaml
code?

bobi

Dimiter "malkia" Stanev

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Dec 18, 2008, 1:45:54 PM12/18/08
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I was just kiddin' of course :) It only took one person to create Ruby,
yet not sure how much more to really do it.

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