openSUSE 42.1, 42.2: 2017:1128-1 Critical: Ruby2.1 Heap Overflow

This ruby2.1 update to version 2.1.9 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2016-2339: heap overflow vulnerability in the

Fiddle::Function.new"initialize" (bsc#1018808)

- CVE-2015-7551: Unsafe tainted string usage in Fiddle and DL (bsc#959495)

- CVE-2015-3900: hostname validation does not work when fetching gems or

making API requests (bsc#936032)

- CVE-2015-1855: Ruby'a OpenSSL extension suffers a vulnerability through

overly permissive matching of hostnames (bsc#926974)

- CVE-2014-4975: off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes()

function (bsc#887877)

Bugfixes:

- SUSEconnect doesn't handle domain wildcards in no_proxy environment

variable properly (bsc#1014863)

- Segmentation fault after pack & ioctl & unpack (bsc#909695)

- Ruby:HTTP Header injection in 'net/http' (bsc#986630)

ChangeLog:

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This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.