This ruby2.1 update to version 2.1.9 fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed:
- CVE-2016-2339: heap overflow vulnerability in the
Fiddle::Function.new"initialize" (bsc#1018808)
- CVE-2015-7551: Unsafe tainted string usage in Fiddle and DL (bsc#959495)
- CVE-2015-3900: hostname validation does not work when fetching gems or
making API requests (bsc#936032)
- CVE-2015-1855: Ruby’a OpenSSL extension suffers a vulnerability through
overly permissive matching of hostnames (bsc#926974)
- CVE-2014-4975: off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes()
function (bsc#887877)
Bugfixes:
- SUSEconnect doesn’t handle domain wildcards in no_proxy environment
variable properly (bsc#1014863)
- Segmentation fault after pack & ioctl & unpack (bsc#909695)
- Ruby:HTTP Header injection in ‘net/http’ (bsc#986630)
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