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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-6914: Security patch for ruby20, ruby22, ruby23, ruby24 (ALAS-2018-983)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-6914: Security patch for ruby20, ruby22, ruby23, ruby24 (ALAS-2018-983)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/03/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/11/2018
Modified
04/16/2020

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir.mktmpdir method in the tmpdir library in Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 might allow attackers to create arbitrary directories or files via a .. (dot dot) in the prefix argument.

Solution(s)

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

References

  • ALAS-2018-983
  • USN-3626-1
  • DSA-4259
  • CVE-2018-6914

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