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Fedora Core 2: FEDORA-2004-265 Urgent: Java Security Vulnerability Resolved

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2004
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Essential security update for ruby in Fedora rectifies session file access rights and weaknesses. Upgrade immediately.
A security fix [CAN-2004-0755]

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.

* Thu Aug 19 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> 1.8.1-6

- security fix [CAN-2004-0755]

- ruby-1.8.1-cgi_session_perms.patch: sets the permission of the session data

file to 0600. (#130063)

This update can be downloaded from:

d8a48d8cc33fbb2d80ef3ae7cc430a7b SRPMS/ruby-1.8.1-6.src.rpm

c714ce56a344262bc6517733374074b1 x86_64/ruby-devel-1.8.1-6.x86_64.rpm

ca4a11002b7ac1a0527704111fc1c8e6 x86_64/irb-1.8.1-6.x86_64.rpm

293bdbe4cbe15b1686b4f947400908ed x86_64/ruby-1.8.1-6.x86_64.rpm

d8e5088313ddc95dac30a0d2805b5f82 x86_64/debug/ruby-debuginfo-1.8.1-6.x86_64.rpm

0782cfa648c4642e4673cc1eaac43ca0 x86_64/ruby-docs-1.8.1-6.x86_64.rpm

ead260eaa77f783b24d2e1084aa8d423 x86_64/ruby-libs-1.8.1-6.x86_64.rpm

15ac23e5f062bfbab02a5ed2cf0218b7 x86_64/ruby-mode-1.8.1-6.x86_64.rpm

85017b0e52e6b52baa5a6068930c3b84 x86_64/ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-6.x86_64.rpm

2bafe002e18bc8eb388869b3dc7ef1fd i386/ruby-1.8.1-6.i386.rpm

1049cb91162d8b2a18714c52b7bfd456 i386/irb-1.8.1-6.i386.rpm

770364a116d5f4c9a6d5679231e879c4 i386/debug/ruby-debuginfo-1.8.1-6.i386.rpm

ac945d1d04306ec2fa7245aefcaa16a2 i386/ruby-devel-1.8.1-6.i386.rpm

1075fc983162e6b00bd29e0976dd79f0 i386/ruby-docs-1.8.1-6.i386.rpm

e561fa39a17cc1770c0d1180732d469c i386/ruby-libs-1.8.1-6.i386.rpm

412267226c58d3bfc73577ebc60157ba i386/ruby-mode-1.8.1-6.i386.rpm

bf1cbb9f65ecf88f4ffa034d24cef119 i386/ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-6.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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Product: Fedora Core 2
Name: ruby
Version: 1.8.1
Release: 6
Summary: An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language

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