-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-17542 2011-12-30 00:12:07 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : ruby Product : Fedora 16 Version : 1.8.7.357 Release : 1.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: A security flaw was found on the previous ruby that with some series of strings which was specially crafted to intentionally collide their hash values with each other, rails applications may fall into denial of services when such strings are used in HTTP requests (CVE-2011-4815). This new ruby will fix this issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Dec 29 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <[email protected]> - 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 <[email protected]> - 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 <[email protected]> - 1.8.7.352-3 - F-17: kill gdbm support for now due to licensing compatibility issue * Sat Oct 1 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <[email protected]> - 1.8.7.352-2 - F-17: rebuild against new gdbm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #750564 - CVE-2011-4815 ruby: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS (oCERT-2011-003) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750564 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
