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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-13066
2009-12-11 16:37:52
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Name : ruby
Product : Fedora 10
Version : 1.8.6.368
Release : 2.fc10
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.
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Update Information:
Update to 1.8.6 p368 This package also fixes the build failure on arm
-gnueabi systems (bug 506233), and DOS vulnerability issue on BigDecimal method
(bug 504958, CVE-2009-1904)
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Dec 7 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.386-2
- Patch for bigdecimal DOS issue (CVE-2009-1904, bug 504958)
* Sun May 31 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen <j.van.meeuwen@ogd.nl> - 1.8.6.368-1
- New upstream release (p368)
* Sat Apr 11 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.287-8
- Merge Review fix (#226381)
* Wed Mar 18 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen <j.van.meeuwen@ogd.nl> - 1.8.6.287-7
- Fix regression in CVE-2008-3790 (#485383)
* Mon Mar 16 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.287-6
- Again use -O2 optimization level
- i586 should search i386-linux directory (on <= F-11)
* Thu Mar 5 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.6.287-5
- Rebuild for gcc4.4
* Fri Feb 27 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.6.287-3
- CVE-2008-5189: CGI header injection.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #504958 - CVE-2009-1904 ruby: DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504958
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update ruby' at the command line.
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available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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