[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: ruby-1.9.3.194-18.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-15376
2012-10-04 17:45:03
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.9.3.194
Release     : 18.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:

Some security flaws were found on ruby currently shipped on Fedora 18 where malicious user can bypass safe mechanize by raising exception intentionally and make arbitrary strings tainted. This flaw were now registered as CVE-2012-4464 and CVE-2012-4466.

This update rpm will fix this issue.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #862907 - CVE-2012-4464 CVE-2012-4466 ruby: various flaws [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862907
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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