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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-1000073: Security patch for ruby20, ruby22, ruby23, ruby24 (ALAS-2018-983)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-1000073: Security patch for ruby20, ruby22, ruby23, ruby24 (ALAS-2018-983)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/06/2018
Modified
08/25/2020

Description

RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in install_location function of package.rb that can result in path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby22
  • amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby23
  • amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby24
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby20

References

  • ALAS-2018-983
  • USN-3621-1
  • USN-3621-2
  • DSA-4219
  • DSA-4259
  • CVE-2018-1000073

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