--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-13066
2009-12-11 16:37:52
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec  7 2009 Mamoru Tasaka  - 1.8.6.386-2
- Patch for bigdecimal DOS issue (CVE-2009-1904, bug 504958)
* Sun May 31 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen  - 1.8.6.368-1
- New upstream release (p368)
* Sat Apr 11 2009 Mamoru Tasaka  - 1.8.6.287-8
- Merge Review fix (#226381)
* Wed Mar 18 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen  - 1.8.6.287-7
- Fix regression in CVE-2008-3790 (#485383)
* Mon Mar 16 2009 Mamoru Tasaka  - 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  - 1.8.6.287-5
- Rebuild for gcc4.4
* Fri Feb 27 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen  - 1.8.6.287-3
- CVE-2008-5189: CGI header injection.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #504958 - CVE-2009-1904 ruby: DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504958
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

_______________________________________________
Fedora-package-announce mailing list
Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce