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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-0166 (rubygem-rack)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: rubygem-rack-1.3.0-2.fc16
Date:  Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:23:49 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120116212349.B06A620BBA@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-0166 2012-01-07 22:24:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : rubygem-rack Product : Fedora 16 Version : 1.3.0 Release : 2.fc16 URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack/ Summary : Common API for connecting web frameworks, web servers and layers of software Description : Rack provides a common API for connecting web frameworks, web servers and layers of software in between -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink reported a flaw in the hash function used in the implementation of the Ruby-rack arrays (CVE-2011-5036). Ruby-rack arrays are implemented using the hash table that maps keys to values. This update fixes the bug. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jan 5 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda@redhat.com> - 1:1.3.0-2 - Moved gem install to %prep to be able to apply patches. - Applied two patches that fix test failures with Ruby 1.8.7-p357. - Applied backported security fix for CVE-2011-5036. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #771150 - CVE-2011-5036 rubygem-rack: hash table collisions DoS (oCERT-2011-003) [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771150 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update rubygem-rack' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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