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Fedora: 2017-81cf93b7c2 Moderate: Rubygems Security Threat

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Security patch for RubyGems 2.6.13 tackling several vulnerabilities in Fedora 27. Follow these steps to apply the update.
Update to RubyGems 2.6.13.

Summary

RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party

libraries.

Update to RubyGems 2.6.13.

[ 1 ] Bug #1487587 - CVE-2017-0901 rubygems: Arbitrary file overwrite due to incorrect validation of specification name

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487587

[ 2 ] Bug #1487588 - CVE-2017-0900 rubygems: No size limit in summary length of gem spec

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487588

[ 3 ] Bug #1487589 - CVE-2017-0902 rubygems: DNS hijacking vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487589

[ 4 ] Bug #1487590 - CVE-2017-0899 rubygems: Escape sequence in the "summary" field of gemspec

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487590

su -c 'dnf upgrade rubygems' 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/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 27
Version: 2.6.13
Release: 100.fc27
Summary: The Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries

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