Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-3052 (rubygem-json)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: rubygem-json-1.6.8-1.fc18 
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-3052
2013-02-26 01:55:12
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Name        : rubygem-json
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.6.8
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://json.rubyforge.org
Summary     : A JSON implementation in Ruby
Description :
This is a implementation of the JSON specification according
to RFC 4627 in Ruby.
You can think of it as a low fat alternative to XML,
if you want to store data to disk or transmit it over
a network rather than use a verbose markup language.

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Update Information:

A security flaw was discovered on the previous json that there is a denial of service and unsafe
object creation vulnerability. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier
CVE-2013-0269.

This new rpm will fix this issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Feb 25 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.8-1
- Update to 1.6.8
- Security fix for JSON create_additions default value
  (CVS-2013-0269)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #910313 - CVE-2013-0269 rubygem-json: Denial of Service and SQL Injection [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910313
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update rubygem-json' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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