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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2017-386e856a4f Moderate: Rubygem-Yard Directory Attack

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Mitigating directory traversal vulnerabilities in the rubygem-yard package for Fedora 27 strengthens the overall system defense against potential threats.
Fix to directory traversal attacks (CVE-2017-17042).

Summary

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language.

It enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be

exported to a number of formats very easily, and also supports extending for

custom Ruby constructs such as custom class level definitions.

Fix to directory traversal attacks (CVE-2017-17042).

[ 1 ] Bug #1519065 - CVE-2017-17042 rubygem-yard: (lib/yard/core_ext/file.rb) is vulnerable to directory traversal attacks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519065

su -c 'dnf upgrade rubygem-yard' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 27
Version: 0.9.8
Release: 4.fc27
Summary: Documentation tool for consistent and usable documentation in Ruby

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