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Fedora 23: Critical Security Fix for Ruby 2.2.4 Vulnerabilities Released

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Calendar Grey December 29, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent update of Ruby 2.2.4 brings essential patches addressing significant vulnerabilities, enhancing the reliability and safety for all users of Fedora.
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

security advisory Fedora critical fix ruby scripting language

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 23
Version: 2.2.4
Release: 47.fc23
URL: https://www.ruby-lang.org/
Summary: An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix ruby scripting language

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