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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-15395 (ruby)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ruby-1.9.3.194-17.fc17
Date:  Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:50:48 +0000
Message-ID:  <20121014035048.52E7F20C57@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-15395 2012-10-05 00:34:31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ruby Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.9.3.194 Release : 17.fc17 URL : http://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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Some security flaws were found on ruby currently shipped on Fedora 17 where malicious user can bypass safe mechanize by raising exception intentionally and make arbitrary strings tainted. This flaw were now registered as CVE-2012-4464 and CVE-2012-4466. This update rpm will fix this issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Oct 4 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.9.3.194-17 - Patch from trunk for CVE-2012-4464, CVE-2012-4466 * Thu Sep 6 2012 Vít Ondruch <vondruch@redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-16 - Split documentation into -doc subpackage (rhbz#854418). * Tue Aug 14 2012 Vít Ondruch <vondruch@redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-15 - Revert the dependency of ruby-libs on rubygems (rhbz#845011, rhbz#847482). * Wed Aug 1 2012 Vít Ondruch <vondruch@redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-14 - ruby-libs must require rubygems (rhbz#845011). * Mon Jun 11 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda@redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-13 - Make the bigdecimal gem a runtime dependency of Ruby. * Mon Jun 11 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda@redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-12 - Make symlinks for bigdecimal and io-console gems to ruby stdlib dirs (RHBZ 829209). * Tue May 29 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda@redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-11 - Fix license to contain Public Domain. - macros.ruby now contains unexpanded macros. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #862907 - CVE-2012-4464 CVE-2012-4466 ruby: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862907 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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