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Fedora 26: FEDORA-2017-379679442e Moderate: Rubygem-Ox Segmentation Fault

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A critical patch for the rubygem-ox resolves a segmentation fault vulnerability, ensuring the protection of Fedora 26 systems through essential updates.
Security fix for CVE-2017-15928

Summary

A fast XML parser and object serializer that uses only standard C lib.

Optimized XML (Ox), as the name implies was written to provide speed optimized

XML handling. It was designed to be an alternative to Nokogiri and other Ruby

XML parsers for generic XML parsing and as an alternative to Marshal for

Object serialization.

Security fix for CVE-2017-15928

[ 1 ] Bug #1509206 - CVE-2017-15928 rubygem-ox: Segmentation fault in the parse_obj

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509206

su -c 'dnf upgrade rubygem-ox' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.4.13
Release: 2.fc26
Summary: Fast XML parser and object serializer

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