[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: ruby-1.8.6.230-1.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-5649
2008-06-25 00:42:08
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.8.6.230
Release     : 1.fc8
URL         : http://www.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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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 24 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-1
- New upstream release.
- Security fixes. (#452293)
  - CVE-2008-1891: WEBrick CGI source disclosure.
  - CVE-2008-2662: Integer overflow in rb_str_buf_append().
  - CVE-2008-2663: Integer overflow in rb_ary_store().
  - CVE-2008-2664: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format().
  - CVE-2008-2725: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice().
  - CVE-2008-2726: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice().
- ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: removed.
* Tue Mar  4 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.114-1
- Security fix for CVE-2008-1145.
- Improve a spec file. (#226381)
  - Correct License tag.
  - Fix a timestamp issue.
  - Own a arch-specific directory.
* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.6.111-9
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
* Tue Feb 19 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-8
- Rebuild for gcc-4.3.
* Tue Jan 15 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-7
- Revert the change of libruby-static.a. (#428384)
* Fri Jan 11 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-6
- Fix an unnecessary replacement for shebang. (#426835)
* Fri Jan  4 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-5
- Rebuild.
* Fri Dec 28 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-4
- Clean up again.
* Fri Dec 21 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-3
- Clean up the spec file.
- Remove ruby-man-1.4.6 stuff. this is entirely the out-dated document.
  this could be replaced by ri.
- Disable the static library building.
* Tue Dec  4 2007 Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org> - 1.8.6.111-2
- Rebuild for openssl bump
* Wed Oct 31 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com>
- Fix the dead link.
* Mon Oct 29 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-1
- New upstream release.
- ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: Update a bit with backporting the changes
   at trunk to enable the fix without any modifications on the users' scripts.
   Note that Net::HTTP#enable_post_connection_check isn't available anymore.
   If you want to disable this post-check, you should give OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
   to Net::HTTP#verify_mode= instead of.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #450825 - CVE-2008-2663 ruby: Integer overflows in rb_ary_store()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450825
  [ 2 ] Bug #451821 - CVE-2008-2725 ruby: integer overflow in rb_ary_splice() (ruby-1.8.x) - REALLOC_N
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451821
  [ 3 ] Bug #451828 - CVE-2008-2726 ruby: integer overflow in rb_ary_splice() (ruby-1.8.x) - beg + rlen
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451828
  [ 4 ] Bug #450834 - CVE-2008-2664 ruby: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450834
  [ 5 ] Bug #450821 - CVE-2008-2662 ruby: Integer overflows in rb_str_buf_append()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450821
  [ 6 ] Bug #443829 - CVE-2008-1891 ruby: WEBrick CGI source disclosure
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443829
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