[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: rubygems-2.0.8-104.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-16251
2013-09-10 16:08:10
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Name        : rubygems
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.0.8
Release     : 104.fc20
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:

A vulnerability was found on rubygems currently being shipped on Fedora in validating versions with a regular expression which leads to denial of service due to backtracking. This issue are now assigned as CVE-2013-4287.

This new rpm will fix this issue.
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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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