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Fedora 22 Ruby Security Update: Critical Fix for Ruby 2.2.4

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The upgrade to Ruby 2.2.4 for Fedora 22 features important security enhancements, providing improved safeguard measures.
Update to Ruby 2.2.4 including security fix for CVE-2009-5147 and CVE-2015-7551.

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 Ruby 2.2.4 including security fix for CVE-2009-5147 and CVE-2015-7551.

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1248935 - CVE-2009-5147 CVE-2015-7551 ruby: DL::dlopen could open a library with tainted library name https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248935

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 .

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Name: ruby
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.2.4
Release: 47.fc22
URL: https://www.ruby-lang.org/
Summary: An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update fedora critical fix open source ruby software maintenance

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