Simon Willison’s Weblog

Comic Sans, the Film. “A documentary film coming soon”

# 12:27 am / comicsans, funny, typography

Arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Ruby (via) Sounds nasty—integer overflows and unsafe allocs leading to memory corruption. Definite DoS and possible code injection as well. Upgrade to Ruby “1.8.5-p231, or 1.8.6-p230, or 1.8.7-p22” ASAP.

# 8:44 am / ruby, security

jsontime. Nat and I threw this together this morning—it runs on Google App Engine and exposes Python’s pytz timezone library over JSONP.

# 7:07 pm / api, appengine, javascript, json, jsontime, projects, python, pytz