Ruby security alerts displayed on ruby-doc

An explanation of an addition to #ruby

Ruby security alerts displayed on ruby-doc 2013-03-08 A few weeks ago I read about some critical security issues that affected Rails. I’m not a Rails user; don’t really care for it (Ramaze rules), but it’s still of interest because often what’s claimed to be a problem with some specific application can in fact be caused by something more fundamental, making it a problem for other Rubyists as well. I learned of this issue form reading Hacker News, but that seems like a poor way to get security updates. I looked around for a better source. The main Ruby web site has a page for security issues but it seems to be out of date. Some other efforts have sprung up to make security issues more readily available but they all seem to require that people actively go look for the info. A good, canonical source of software vulnerabilities I found is the National Vulnerability Database . ...

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