[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: rubygem-rack-1.3.0-2.fc16
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Mon Jan 16 21:23:49 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-0166
2012-01-07 22:24:28
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Name : rubygem-rack
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 1.3.0
Release : 2.fc16
URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack/
Summary : Common API for connecting web frameworks, web servers and layers of software
Description :
Rack provides a common API for connecting web frameworks,
web servers and layers of software in between
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Update Information:
Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink reported a flaw in the hash function used in the implementation of the Ruby-rack arrays (CVE-2011-5036). Ruby-rack arrays are implemented using the hash table that maps keys to values. This update fixes the bug.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Jan 5 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com> - 1:1.3.0-2
- Moved gem install to %prep to be able to apply patches.
- Applied two patches that fix test failures with Ruby 1.8.7-p357.
- Applied backported security fix for CVE-2011-5036.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #771150 - CVE-2011-5036 rubygem-rack: hash table collisions DoS (oCERT-2011-003) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771150
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
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