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OS X update for Ruby (CVE-2015-1855)

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OS X update for Ruby (CVE-2015-1855)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/05/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/05/2017
Modified
03/18/2020

Description

verify_certificate_identity in the OpenSSL extension in Ruby before 2.0.0 patchlevel 645, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not properly validate hostnames, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via vectors related to (1) multiple wildcards, (1) wildcards in IDNA names, (3) case sensitivity, and (4) non-ASCII characters.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_11

References

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