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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16396: Security patch for ruby (ALAS-2019-1276)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16396: Security patch for ruby (ALAS-2019-1276)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/16/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-tcltk
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygems
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygems-devel

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