RHEA-2015:1651 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated ruby193 packages that add one enhancement are now available as part of
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Description

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It
provides features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.
The ruby193 packages provide a stable release of Ruby 1.9.3 with Rails 3.2.8 and
a large collection of Ruby gems.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• Previously, Ruby was built against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3, which did not

include support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in OpenSSL; this support
was added to OpenSSL in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. As a consequence, users of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 and later versions were able to create EC keys or
certificates using OpenSSL, but were unable to use them because keys and
certificates are validated in the Ruby code. With this update, Ruby has been
rebuilt against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, and the Ruby feature set now
matches the OpenSSL capabilities. (BZ#1116120)

Users of ruby193 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add
this enhancement.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1116120 - Elliptic Curve Cryptography is unsupported in the openssl extension

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)