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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-e136d63c99
2017-09-15 19:28:03.391730
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Name : ruby
Product : Fedora 25
Version : 2.3.4
Release : 64.fc25
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:
* Fix ANSI escape sequence vulnerability (CVE-2017-0899). * Fix DoS
vulnerability in the query command (CVE-2017-0900). * Fix a vulnerability in the
gem installer that allowed a malicious gem to overwrite arbitrary files
(CVE-2017-0901). * Fix DNS request hijacking vulnerability (CVE-2017-0902). *
Fix arbitrary heap exposure during a JSON.generate call (CVE-2017-14064).
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1487590 - CVE-2017-0899 rubygems: Escape sequence in the "summary"
field of gemspec
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487590
[ 2 ] Bug #1487588 - CVE-2017-0900 rubygems: No size limit in summary length of gem
spec
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487588
[ 3 ] Bug #1487587 - CVE-2017-0901 rubygems: Arbitrary file overwrite due to incorrect
validation of specification name
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487587
[ 4 ] Bug #1487589 - CVE-2017-0902 rubygems: DNS hijacking vulnerability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487589
[ 5 ] Bug #1487552 - CVE-2017-14064 ruby: Arbitrary heap exposure during a JSON.generate
call
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487552
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade ruby' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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