[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: ruby-1.8.7.352-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9359
2011-07-16 06:45:28
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.8.7.352
Release     : 1.fc15
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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Update Information:

New version 1.8.7p352 is released, fixing randomization process in forked process (CVE-2011-2686). Also ruby path is fixed to have no duplicate directories on all archs.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Jul 16 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.352-1
- Update to 1.8.7 p352
- CVE-2011-2686 is fixed in this version (bug 722415)
- Update ext/tk to the latest git
- Remove duplicate path entry (bug 718695)
* Thu Jul 14 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.334-4
- Once fix FTBFS (bug 716021)
* Mon Jul 11 2011 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 1.8.7.334-3
- normalise arm cpus to arm
* Mon May 30 2011 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.7.334-2
- Own %{_normalized_cpu}-%{_target_os} directory (bug 708816)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #722415 - CVE-2011-2686 CVE-2011-2705 ruby: Properly initialize the random number generator when forking new process
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722415
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