[El-errata] ELSA-2008-0896 Moderate: Enterprise Linux 3 ruby security update

[Errata Announcements for Enterprise Linux]

Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2008-0896

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0896.html

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 3 have been uploaded to 
the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
irb-1.6.8-13.el3.i386.rpm
ruby-1.6.8-13.el3.i386.rpm
ruby-devel-1.6.8-13.el3.i386.rpm
ruby-docs-1.6.8-13.el3.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.6.8-13.el3.i386.rpm
ruby-mode-1.6.8-13.el3.i386.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.6.8-13.el3.i386.rpm

x86_64:
irb-1.6.8-13.el3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-1.6.8-13.el3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-devel-1.6.8-13.el3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-docs-1.6.8-13.el3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-libs-1.6.8-13.el3.i386.rpm
ruby-libs-1.6.8-13.el3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-mode-1.6.8-13.el3.x86_64.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.6.8-13.el3.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el3/SRPMS-updates/ruby-1.6.8-13.el3.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[1.6.8-13.el3]
- security fixes. (#461578)
- CVE-2008-3655: multiple insufficient safe mode restrictions
- CVE-2008-3443: Memory allocation failure in Ruby regex engine 
(remotely exploitable DoS)
- CVE-2008-3905: use of predictable source port and transaction
                 id in DNS requests done by resolve.rb module.