[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: rubygems-2.0.10-106.fc20
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Tue Oct 1 02:11:27 UTC 2013
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-17603
2013-09-26 04:48:35
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Name : rubygems
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 2.0.10
Release : 106.fc20
URL : https://rubygems.org/
Summary : The Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries
Description :
RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party
libraries.
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Update Information:
Previously a security flow was found on rubygems for validating versions with a regular expression which is vulnerable to denial of service due to backtracking. Although this was thought to be fixed in the previous rubygems, the fix was found imcomplete and the imcompleteness is now assigned as CVE-2013-4363.
A packaging bug was found that a directory was not properly owned.
This new rpm will fix this issue.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1008866 - /usr/share/gems/doc ownership
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008866
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update rubygems' 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
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