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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
Apr 3, 2018
Added
May 11, 2018
Modified
Apr 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.

Solutions

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