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HistoryNov 25, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

(RHSA-2013:1763) Critical: ruby193-ruby security update

2013-11-2500:00:00
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Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language.
It has features to process text files and to perform system management
tasks.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Ruby parsed floating point
numbers from their text representation. If an application using Ruby
accepted untrusted input strings and converted them to floating point
numbers, an attacker able to provide such input could cause the application
to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
application. (CVE-2013-4164)

All ruby193-ruby users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.