[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: rubygems-1.7.2-5.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-6414
2012-04-22 02:45:53
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Name        : rubygems
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.7.2
Release     : 5.fc15
URL         : http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/
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:

With this new rubygems, HTTPS connection no longer redirects to HTTP. Also now rubygems verify SSL connection.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Apr 21 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.2-5
- Backport fix for insecure connection to SSL repository (bug 814718)
* Thu Jan 26 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.2-4
- Provide -devel package except for %gem_extdir
* Sun Aug 28 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.2-3
- Backport patch for rubygems/pull/165, code-injection in 
  Gem::Specification#ruby_code issue
* Tue May 24 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.2-2
- Handle gemspec file with containing "invalid" date format
  generated with psych (ref: bug 706914)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #814718 - CVE-2012-2125 CVE-2012-2126 rubygems: Two security fixes in v1.8.23
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814718
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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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