Fedora 10: ruby Security Update
Summary
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.
Update Information:
Update to 1.8.6 p368 This package also fixes the build failure on arm -gnueabi systems (bug 506233), and DOS vulnerability issue on BigDecimal method (bug 504958, CVE-2009-1904)
Change Log
* Mon Dec 7 2009 Mamoru Tasaka
References
[ 1 ] Bug #504958 - CVE-2009-1904 ruby: DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504958
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ruby' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .