Fedora 9 Update: ruby-1.8.6.230-3.fc9

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-5883
2008-07-01 02:42:09
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 1.8.6.230
Release     : 3.fc9
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:

* Mon Jun 30 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-3
- Backported from upstream SVN to fix a segfault issue. (#452825)
- Backported from upstream SVN to fix an integer overflow in rb_ary_fill.
* Wed Jun 25 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-2
- Fix a segfault issue. (#452809)
* Tue Jun 24 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-1
- New upstream release.
- Security fixes. (#452294).
  - 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.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #452825 - *** glibc detected *** ruby: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x09eaace8 ***
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452825
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