Fedora 10: ruby Security Update

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)

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-13066
2009-12-11 16:37:52
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 1.8.6.368
Release     : 2.fc10
URL         : https://www.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:

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)
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec  7 2009 Mamoru Tasaka  - 1.8.6.386-2
- Patch for bigdecimal DOS issue (CVE-2009-1904, bug 504958)
* Sun May 31 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen  - 1.8.6.368-1
- New upstream release (p368)
* Sat Apr 11 2009 Mamoru Tasaka  - 1.8.6.287-8
- Merge Review fix (#226381)
* Wed Mar 18 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen  - 1.8.6.287-7
- Fix regression in CVE-2008-3790 (#485383)
* Mon Mar 16 2009 Mamoru Tasaka  - 1.8.6.287-6
- Again use -O2 optimization level
- i586 should search i386-linux directory (on <= F-11)
* Thu Mar  5 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen  - 1.8.6.287-5
- Rebuild for gcc4.4
* Fri Feb 27 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen  - 1.8.6.287-3
- CVE-2008-5189: CGI header injection.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #504958 - CVE-2009-1904 ruby: DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504958
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