[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: ruby-1.8.6.383-6.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-0533
2010-01-14 00:55:12
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.8.6.383
Release     : 6.fc11
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:

A secrity vulnerability is found on WEBrick module in Ruby  currently shipped on
Fedora 11 that WEBrick lets attackers  to inject malicious escape sequences to
its logs, making it  possible for dangerous control characters to be executed on
a victim's terminal emulator. This issue has now been tagged as  CVE-2009-4492.
Also currently have_library() function in mkmf.rb always  requires ruby's static
archive to function correctly despite  that ruby shared library is also
provided.    This new rpm will fix these issues.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 13 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.383-6
- CVE-2009-4492 ruby WEBrick log escape sequence (bug 554485)
* Wed Dec  9 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.383-5
- Change mkmf.rb to use LIBRUBYARG_SHARED so that have_library() works
  without libruby-static.a (bug 428384)
- And move libruby-static.a to -static subpackage
* Thu Oct 29 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.383-4
- Use bison to regenerate parse.c to keep the original format of error
  messages (bug 530275 comment 4)
* Sun Oct 25 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.383-3
- Patch so that irb saves its history (bug 518584, ruby issue 1556)
* Sat Oct 24 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.383-2
- Restore the previous changes
* Sat Oct 24 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.6.383-1
- Update to 1.8.6 patchlevel 383 (bug 520063)
* Wed Oct 14 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.369-3
- Much better idea for Patch31 provided by Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com>
* Wed Oct 14 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.6.369-2
- Fix the search path of ri command for ri manuals installed with gem
  (bug 528787)
* Sat Jun 20 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.6.369-1
- New patchlevel fixing CVE-2009-1904
- Fix directory on ARM (#506233, Kedar Sovani)
* Sun May 31 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen <j.van.meeuwen at ogd.nl> - 1.8.6.368-1
- New upstream release (p368)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #554485 - CVE-2009-4492 ruby WEBrick log escape sequence
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554485
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ruby' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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