[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: ruby-1.8.6.114-1.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2458
2008-03-13 05:55:44
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 1.8.6.114
Release     : 1.fc7
URL         : http://www.ruby-lang.org/
Summary     : An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language
Description :
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.

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar  4 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.114-1
- Security fix for CVE-2008-1145.
- Improve a spec file. (#226381)
  - Correct License tag.
  - Fix a timestamp issue.
  - Own a arch-specific directory.
* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.6.111-9
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
* Tue Feb 19 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-8
- Rebuild for gcc-4.3.
* Tue Jan 15 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-7
- Revert the change of libruby-static.a. (#428384)
* Fri Jan 11 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-6
- Fix an unnecessary replacement for shebang. (#426835)
* Fri Jan  4 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-5
- Rebuild.
* Fri Dec 28 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-4
- Clean up again.
* Fri Dec 21 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-3
- Clean up the spec file.
- Remove ruby-man-1.4.6 stuff. this is entirely the out-dated document.
  this could be replaced by ri.
- Disable the static library building.
* Tue Dec  4 2007 Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org> - 1.8.6.111-2
- Rebuild for openssl bump
* Wed Oct 31 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com>
- Fix the dead link.
* Mon Oct 29 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-1
- New upstream release.
- ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: Update a bit with backporting the changes
   at trunk to enable the fix without any modifications on the users' scripts.
   Note that Net::HTTP#enable_post_connection_check isn't available anymore.
   If you want to disable this post-check, you should give OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
   to Net::HTTP#verify_mode= instead of.
* Mon Oct 15 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.110-2
- Enable pthread support for ppc too. (#201452)
- Fix unexpected dependencies appears in ruby-libs. (#253325)
* Wed Oct 10 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.110-1
- New upstream release.
  - ruby-r12567.patch: removed.
- ruby-1.8.6-CVE-2007-5162.patch: security fix for Net::HTTP that is
  insufficient verification of SSL certificate.
* Thu Aug 23 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.36-4
- Rebuild
* Fri Aug 10 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com>
- Update License tag.
* Wed Jul 25 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.36-3
- ruby-r12567.patch: backport patch from upstream svn to get rid of
  the unnecessary declarations. (#245446)
* Fri Jul 20 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.36-2
- New upstream release.
  - Fix Etc::getgrgid to get the correct gid as requested. (#236647)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #435902 - CVE-2008-1145 ruby: webrick directory traversal
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435902
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