Fedora 22: 2015-6238 Mild Issue with Ruby OpenSSL Domain Security
fedora
April 23, 2015
Fixes CVE-2015-1855 ruby: OpenSSL extension hostname matching implementation violates RFC 6125
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:
Fixes CVE-2015-1855 ruby: OpenSSL extension hostname matching implementation violates RFC 6125
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1209982 - CVE-2015-1855 ruby: OpenSSL extension hostname matching implementation violates RFC 6125 [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209982
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: 2.2.2
Release: 11.fc22
Summary: An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language
Topics Covered
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