[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ruby-1.9.3.327-19.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18017
2012-11-11 01:55:09
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.9.3.327
Release     : 19.fc17
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:

A security flaw was found on ruby currently shiped on Fedora 18 that carefully crafted sequence of strings may cause a denial of service attack on the service that parses the sequence to create a Hash object by using the strings as keys. This issue is now registered as CVE-2012-5371.

This new package should fix this issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Nov 10 2012 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.9.3.327-19
- Update to 1.9.3.327
- Fix Hash-flooding DoS vulnerability on MurmurHash function
  (CVE-2012-5371)
* Sat Oct 13 2012 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.9.3.286-18
- Update to 1.9.3 p286
- Don't create files when NUL-containing path name is passed
  (bug 865940, CVE-2012-4522)
* Thu Oct  4 2012 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.9.3.194-17
- Patch from trunk for CVE-2012-4464, CVE-2012-4466
* Thu Sep  6 2012 Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-16
- Split documentation into -doc subpackage (rhbz#854418).
* Tue Aug 14 2012 Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-15
- Revert the dependency of ruby-libs on rubygems (rhbz#845011, rhbz#847482).
* Wed Aug  1 2012 Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-14
- ruby-libs must require rubygems (rhbz#845011).
* Mon Jun 11 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-13
- Make the bigdecimal gem a runtime dependency of Ruby.
* Mon Jun 11 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-12
- Make symlinks for bigdecimal and io-console gems to ruby stdlib dirs (RHBZ 829209).
* Tue May 29 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com> - 1.9.3.194-11
- Fix license to contain Public Domain.
- macros.ruby now contains unexpanded macros.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #875267 - CVE-2012-5371 ruby: hash-flooding DoS flaw in ruby 1.9 [fedora-17]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875267
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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