SUSE-SU-2013:0647-1: important: Security update for Ruby 1.9

[sle-security-updates at lists.suse.com]

   SUSE Security Update: Security update for Ruby 1.9
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-SU-2013:0647-1
Rating:             important
References:         #783511 #789983 #791199 #796757 #802406 #803342 
                    
Cross-References:   CVE-2013-0269
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3
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   An update that solves one vulnerability and has 5 fixes is
   now available.

Description:


   The Ruby script interpreter 1.9 has been updated to 1.9.3
   p392 fixing  various bugs and security issues:

   This release includes security fixes about bundled JSON and
   REXML.

   * Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation
   Vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2013-0269)
   * Entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML (XML bomb)
   * XSS exploit of RDoc documentation generated by rdoc
   (CVE-2013-0256)

   And some small bugfixes are also included see
   /usr/share/doc/packages/ruby19/Changelog for more details

   Also the following bugfix was added:

   * added bind_stack.patch: (bnc#796757) Fixes stack
   boundary issues when embedding Ruby into threaded C code
   (Ruby bug #229)

   Security Issue reference:

   * CVE-2013-0269
   <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0269
   >


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3:

      zypper in -t patch slestso13-ruby19-7496

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3 (x86_64):

      ruby19-1.9.3.p392-0.7.1
      ruby19-devel-1.9.3.p392-0.7.1
      ruby19-devel-extra-1.9.3.p392-0.7.1


References:

   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0269.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/783511
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/789983
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/791199
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/796757
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/802406
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/803342
   http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=e50f6dac0ba6a3ba64aeb6f6f0f9b922