vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2019-8324: Important: ruby:2.5 security update (ALSA-2019-1972)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 17, 2019
Added
May 13, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec during the preinstall check.

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