Issued:

2011-01-04

Updated:

2011-01-04

RHBA-2011:0005 - ruby bug fix update

Synopsis

ruby bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated ruby packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

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

This update fixes the following bug:

• Under some circumstances on the PowerPC 64 architecture, Ruby did not save the context correctly before switching threads. Consequently, when a thread was restored, it had stale context whose use would result in a segmentation fault. This affected nearly any thread-using program on PowerPC 64. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and the context is now saved correctly. (BZ#653824)

All PowerPC 64 ruby users 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.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• ruby-devel-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-docs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• ruby-tcltk-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• ruby-static-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• ruby-tcltk-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-debuginfo-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-irb-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• ruby-ri-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-irb-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.src.rpm
• ruby-ri-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-debuginfo-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390.rpm
• ruby-ri-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• ruby-static-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• ruby-docs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-static-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-docs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-tcltk-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-irb-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-debuginfo-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-tcltk-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-debuginfo-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc.rpm
• ruby-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• ruby-debuginfo-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-ri-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• ruby-devel-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc.rpm
• ruby-irb-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• ruby-docs-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• ruby-static-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• ruby-debuginfo-1.8.7.299-5.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 653824

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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