-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-17949 2012-11-10 19:30:40 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : ruby Product : Fedora 18 Version : 1.9.3.327 Release : 22.fc18 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: A security flaw was found on ruby currently shiped on Fedora 18 that carefully crafted sequence of strings may cause a denial of service attack on the service that parses the sequence to create a Hash object by using the strings as keys. This issue is now registered as CVE-2012-5371. This new package should fix this issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #875268 - CVE-2012-5371 ruby: hash-flooding DoS flaw in ruby 1.9 [fedora-18] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875268 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
