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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-16255: Moderate: ruby:2.5 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-16255: Moderate: ruby:2.5 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/26/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
03/19/2024

Description

Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows code injection if the first argument (aka the "command" argument) to Shell#[] or Shell#test in lib/shell.rb is untrusted data. An attacker can exploit this to call an arbitrary Ruby method.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-abrt
  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-abrt-doc
  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-bson
  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-bson-doc
  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-mongo
  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-mongo-doc
  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2
  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-doc
  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-pg
  • alma-upgrade-rubygem-pg-doc

References

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