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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-7faa3d2e78 Moderate: Ruby IV Reuse in GCM Mode

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent patch for Ruby on Fedora 25 mitigates vulnerabilities stemming from IV repetition in GCM encryption, reinforcing protective protocols.
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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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2.3.3
Release: 62.fc25
Summary: An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language

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