[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: rubygems-1.8.25-8.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-17649
2013-09-26 04:50:10
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Name        : rubygems
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.8.25
Release     : 8.fc18
URL         : https://rubygems.org/
Summary     : The Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries
Description :
RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party
libraries.

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Update Information:

Previously a security flow was found on rubygems for validating versions with a regular expression which is vulnerable to denial of service due to backtracking. Although this was thought to be fixed in the previous rubygems, the fix was found imcomplete and the imcompleteness is now assigned as  CVE-2013-4363.

A packaging bug was found that a directory was not properly owned.

This new rpm will fix this issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Sep 23 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.25-8
- Patch for CVE-2013-4363
* Tue Sep 10 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.25-7
- Backport from 1.8.26 to fix CVE-2013-4287
* Tue Mar 26 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.25-6
- Fix %gem_extdir_mri directory on F-18 and below
* Fri Mar  8 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.25-5
- Detect json / io-console directory at %check
- Prevent squash of %gem_install with following line
  (Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com>)
* Mon Feb 25 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.25-4
- Backport %gem_extdir_mri also
* Mon Feb 25 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.25-3
- And slightly change %gem_install because rubygems 1.8.25
  does not support --document=ri,rdoc style
  (Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com>)
* Mon Feb 25 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.25-2
- Backport %gem_install macro
* Tue Feb  5 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.25-1
- 1.8.25
* Tue Feb  5 2013 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.24-4
- Bump release
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update rubygems' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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