[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: ruby-1.9.3.327-22.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17949
2012-11-10 19:30:40
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.9.3.327
Release     : 22.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:

A security flaw was found on ruby currently shiped on Fedora 18 that carefully crafted sequence of strings may cause a denial of service attack on the service that parses the sequence to create a Hash object by using the strings as keys. This issue is now registered as CVE-2012-5371.

This new package should fix this issue.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #875268 - CVE-2012-5371 ruby: hash-flooding DoS flaw in ruby 1.9 [fedora-18]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875268
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