Issued:

2010-01-07

Updated:

2010-01-07

RHBA-2010:0012 - ruby bug fix update

Synopsis

ruby bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated ruby packages that fix a regression are now available.

Description

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks.

These updated ruby packages fix the following bug:

• a regression introduced by the fix for CVE-2009-1904 caused leading zeros after the decimal point in BigDecimal objects to be dropped, which could have led to incorrect mathematical calculations. This update fixes this problem by ensuring that leading zeros following a decimal point in BigDecimal objects are not dropped.

A link to the update which introduced this regression is provided in the References section of this errata. (BZ#546245)

All users of ruby are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc.rpm
• ruby-docs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-docs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc.rpm
• ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc.rpm
• ruby-docs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390x.rpm
• ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386.rpm
• ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390x.rpm
• ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386.rpm
• ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390x.rpm
• ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc.rpm
• ruby-mode-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390x.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390.rpm
• ruby-ri-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390x.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386.rpm
• ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390x.rpm
• ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-mode-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386.rpm
• ruby-mode-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-docs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386.rpm
• ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390x.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390.rpm
• ruby-ri-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ia64.rpm
• ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ia64.rpm
• ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ia64.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ia64.rpm
• ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ia64.rpm
• ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386.rpm
• ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390x.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ia64.rpm
• ruby-ri-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.s390x.rpm
• ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ia64.rpm
• ruby-mode-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ia64.rpm
• ruby-mode-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-ri-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386.rpm
• ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386.rpm
• ruby-ri-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ppc.rpm
• ruby-docs-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.ia64.rpm
• ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 546245

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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