[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ruby-2.0.0.353-16.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-22393
2013-11-29 15:44:45
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.0.0.353
Release     : 16.fc20
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:

Update to Ruby 2.0.0-p353. This includes fix to an overflow in floating point number parsing found in Ruby currently being shipped on Fedora 20. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-4164.
This new rpm should fix this issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Nov 25 2013 Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> - 2.0.0.353-16
- Update to Ruby 2.0.0-p353.
- Fix heap overflow in floating point parsing (CVE-2013-4164).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1034122 - ruby-2.0.0.353 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034122
  [ 2 ] Bug #1033546 - CVE-2013-4164 ruby: heap overflow in floating point parsing [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1033546
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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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