[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: ruby-1.9.3.286-19.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-16071
2012-10-13 21:04:10
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.9.3.286
Release     : 19.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.

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Update Information:

New version 1.9.3 patchlevel 286 is released.

A potential security flaw was found on the previous ruby that using crafted string might lead to unintentional file creation. This new rpm will fix this issue.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #865940 - CVE-2012-4522 ruby: unintentional file creation caused by inserting an illegal NUL character
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865940
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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
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