[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: rubygem-rack-1.1.0-4.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-0233
2012-01-07 22:27:21
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Name        : rubygem-rack
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.1.0
Release     : 4.fc15
URL         : http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack/
Summary     : Common API for connecting web frameworks, web servers and layers of software
Description :
Rack provides a common API for connecting web frameworks,
web servers and layers of software in between

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Update Information:

Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink reported a flaw in the hash function used in the implementation of the Ruby-rack arrays (CVE-2011-5036). Ruby-rack arrays are implemented using the hash table that maps keys to values. This update fixes the bug.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan  5 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com> - 1:1.1.0-4
- Moved gem install to %prep to be able to apply patches.
- Applied two patches that fix test failures with Ruby 1.8.7-p357.
- Added a source with files needed for some tests.
- Applied backported security fix for CVE-2011-5036.
* Wed Feb  9 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org>
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #771150 - CVE-2011-5036 rubygem-rack: hash table collisions DoS (oCERT-2011-003) [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771150
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