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Fedora 24: ruby Update for IV Reuse in GCM Mode - Security Advisory

fedora
Calendar Grey August 4, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Ruby patch for Fedora 24 fixes issues with IV reuse in GCM mode, bolstering security measures for users.
Fix IV Reuse in GCM Mode.

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.

Fix IV Reuse in GCM Mode.

[ 1 ] Bug #1381526 - CVE-2016-7798 ruby: IV Reuse in GCM Mode

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381526

su -c 'dnf upgrade ruby' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.3.3
Release: 62.fc24
Summary: An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language

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