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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-16086 (ruby)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ruby-1.9.3.286-18.fc17
Date:  Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:59:29 +0000
Message-ID:  <20121022015929.8BBD920A47@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-16086 2012-10-14 03:22:19 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ruby Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.9.3.286 Release : 18.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: New version 1.9.3 patchlevel 286 is released. A potential security flaw was found on the previous ruby that using crafted string might lead to unintentional file creation. This new rpm will fix this issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sat Oct 13 2012 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka@fedoraproject.org> - 1.9.3.286-18 - Update to 1.9.3 p286 - Don't create files when NUL-containing path name is passed (bug 865940) * 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 #865940 - CVE-2012-4522 ruby: unintentional file creation caused by inserting an illegal NUL character https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865940 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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