[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: ruby-2.1.4-24.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-14096
2014-11-01 15:22:21
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2.1.4
Release     : 24.fc21
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 2.1.4.
Include only vendor directories, not their content (rhbz#1114071).
Fix "invalid regex" warning for non-rubygem packages (rhbz#1154067).
Use load macro introduced in RPM 4.12.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1157709 - CVE-2014-8080 ruby: REXML billion laughs attack via parameter entity expansion
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157709
  [ 2 ] Bug #1118158 - CVE-2014-4975 ruby: off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes() function
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118158
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