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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-15507 (ruby)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-15507 2012-10-06 03:26:16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ruby Product : Fedora 16 Version : 1.8.7.358 Release : 4.fc16 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Note that CVE-2012-4464 is basically the same as CVE-2011-1005, which was supposed to be already fixed on ruby 1.8.x branch but it proved that the fix was incomplete. This new rpm will fix the above issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Oct 4 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.358-4 - Also backport fix for the left part of CVE-2011-1005 (causing the same issue as CVE-2012-4464) (Vít Ondruch <vondruch@redhat.com>) * Thu Oct 4 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.358-3 - Backport fix for CVE-2012-4466 on trunk:rev37068 to 1.8.7 branch * Sat Jun 16 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.358-2 - Fix sed usage wrt shebang modification (Christian Iseli <Christian.Iseli@unil.ch>) * Fri Apr 13 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.358-1 - Update to 1.8.7p358 * Thu Dec 29 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.357-1 - Update to 1.8.7p357 - Randomize hash on process startup (CVE-2011-4815, bug 750564) * Fri Dec 23 2011 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 1.8.7.352-2 - dont normalise arm cpus to arm - there is something weird about how ruby choses where to put bits * Wed Nov 16 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.352-3 - F-17: kill gdbm support for now due to licensing compatibility issue * Sat Oct 1 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.352-2 - F-17: rebuild against new gdbm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-... (Log in to post comments)
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