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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-5664 (ruby)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: ruby-1.8.6.230-1.fc9
Date:  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:52:26 +0000
Message-ID:  <200806250252.m5P2pvlx009752@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-5664 2008-06-25 00:43:26 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ruby Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.8.6.230 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.ruby-lang.org/ Summary : An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Description : Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jun 24 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-1 - New upstream release. - Security fixes. (#452294). - CVE-2008-1891: WEBrick CGI source disclosure. - CVE-2008-2662: Integer overflow in rb_str_buf_append(). - CVE-2008-2663: Integer overflow in rb_ary_store(). - CVE-2008-2664: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format(). - CVE-2008-2725: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice(). - CVE-2008-2726: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice(). - ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: removed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #450825 - CVE-2008-2663 ruby: Integer overflows in rb_ary_store() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450825 [ 2 ] Bug #443829 - CVE-2008-1891 ruby: WEBrick CGI source disclosure https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443829 [ 3 ] Bug #451821 - CVE-2008-2725 ruby: integer overflow in rb_ary_splice() (ruby-1.8.x) - REALLOC_N https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451821 [ 4 ] Bug #450821 - CVE-2008-2662 ruby: Integer overflows in rb_str_buf_append() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450821 [ 5 ] Bug #451828 - CVE-2008-2726 ruby: integer overflow in rb_ary_splice() (ruby-1.8.x) - beg + rlen https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451828 [ 6 ] Bug #450834 - CVE-2008-2664 ruby: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450834 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ruby' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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