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Fedora 29: python Security Update Urgent: Various Vulnerabilities Fixed

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Calendar Grey April 15, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Fedora 28 Ruby resolves multiple security concerns, encompassing Denial of Service and directory traversal threats.
* Rebase to Ruby 2.5.1

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.

* Rebase to Ruby 2.5.1. * Several CVE fixes. * Conflict requirement needs to

generate dependency. * Stop using --with-setjmp-type=setjmp on aarch64.

[ 1 ] Bug #1561947 - CVE-2018-6914 ruby: Unintentional file and directory creation with directory traversal in tempfile and tmpdir

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561947

[ 2 ] Bug #1561948 - CVE-2018-8779 ruby: Unintentional socket creation by poisoned NUL byte in UNIXServer and UNIXSocket

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561948

[ 3 ] Bug #1561949 - CVE-2018-8780 ruby: Unintentional directory traversal by poisoned NUL byte in Dir

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561949

[ 4 ] Bug #1561950 - CVE-2018-8777 ruby: DoS by large request in WEBrick

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561950

[ 5 ] Bug #1561952 - CVE-2017-17742 ruby: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561952

[ 6 ] Bug #1561953 - CVE-2018-8778 ruby: Buffer under-read in String#unpack

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561953

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

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 28
Version: 2.5.1
Release: 92.fc28
Summary: An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language

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