[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: ruby-1.8.7.358-4.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-15507
2012-10-06 03:26:16
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.8.7.358
Release     : 4.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.

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Update Information:

Some security flaws were found on ruby currently shipped on Fedora 17 where malicious user can bypass safe mechanize by raising exception intentionally and make arbitrary strings tainted. This flaw were now registered as CVE-2012-4464 and CVE-2012-4466.

Note that CVE-2012-4464 is basically the same as CVE-2011-1005, which was supposed to be already fixed on ruby 1.8.x branch but it proved that the fix was incomplete.

This new rpm will fix the above issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Oct  4 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.358-4
- Also backport fix for the left part of CVE-2011-1005 (causing the
  same issue as CVE-2012-4464)
  (Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com>)
* Thu Oct  4 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.358-3
- Backport fix for CVE-2012-4466 on trunk:rev37068 to 1.8.7 branch
* Sat Jun 16 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.358-2
- Fix sed usage wrt shebang modification
  (Christian Iseli <Christian.Iseli at unil.ch>)
* Fri Apr 13 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.358-1
- Update to 1.8.7p358
* Thu Dec 29 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 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 <dennis at ausil.us> - 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 <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.352-3
- F-17: kill gdbm support for now due to licensing compatibility issue
* Sat Oct  1 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.352-2
- F-17: rebuild against new gdbm
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #862907 - CVE-2012-4464 CVE-2012-4466 ruby: various flaws [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862907
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