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Fedora 21 Security Advisory: Rubygems DNS Hijacking Issue Critical Update

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Rubygems has released version 2.2.5, which fixes a critical DNS hijacking vulnerability. Fedora 21 users should immediately update to protect their installations
Update to RubyGems 2.2.5.

Summary

RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party

libraries.

Update Information:

Update to RubyGems 2.2.5.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DNS hijacking rubygems

Change Log

* Thu Aug 6 2015 Vít Ondruch - 2.2.5-100 - Update to RubyGems 2.2.5.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1236116 - CVE-2015-3900 rubygems: DNS hijacking vulnerability in api_endpoint() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236116

Update Instructions

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 .

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Name: rubygems
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 2.2.5
Release: 100.fc21
URL: https://rubygems.org/
Summary: The Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries

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Topics Covered

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