From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-01-11T08:06:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Security -- Ruby 1.8.6 pl388 released

On Jan 10, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Kirk Haines wrote:

> This release fixes the security vulnerability that was just announced,
> and rolls in a few other bug fixes, including a backport of r24713
> which fixes a segfault from freelist exhaustion that can be triggered
> by certain tight loops.

Is there any reason this patch hasn't been rolled into 1.8.6 yet?

  http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2220

I still can't build a Ruby 1.8.6 that correctly loads extensions on Snow Leopard without it.

James Edward Gray II