vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-17790: Security patch for ruby20, ruby22, ruby23, ruby24 (ALAS-2018-983)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 20, 2017
Added
Apr 6, 2018
Modified
Apr 16, 2020

Description

The lazy_initialize function in lib/resolv.rb in Ruby through 2.4.3 uses Kernel#open, which might allow Command Injection attacks, as demonstrated by a Resolv::Hosts::new argument beginning with a '|' character, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-17405. NOTE: situations with untrusted input may be highly unlikely.

Solutions

amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby22amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby23amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby24amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby20
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