Mageia alert MGASA-2015-0345 (ruby-RubyGems)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2015-0345: Updated ruby-RubyGems packages fix security vulnerabilities 
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Tue, 8 Sep 2015 19:56:35 +0200
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MGASA-2015-0345 - Updated ruby-RubyGems packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 08 Sep 2015
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0345.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4, 5
CVE: CVE-2015-3900

Description:
Updated ruby-RubyGems package fixes security vulnerability:

RubyGems does not validate the hostname when fetching gems or making API
request, which allows remote attackers to redirect requests to arbitrary
domains via a crafted DNS SRV record, aka a "DNS hijack attack"
(CVE-2015-3900).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16218
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announc...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3900

SRPMS:
- 4/core/ruby-RubyGems-2.1.11-3.1.mga4
- 5/core/ruby-RubyGems-2.1.11-5.1.mga5