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Arch Linux: Insufficient validation (CVE-2019-15845)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 26, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

It has been discovered that Ruby before 2.4.8, 2.5.7 and 2.6.5 is vulnerable to NUL injection in built-in methods (File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch?). An attacker who has the control of the path pattern parameter could exploit this vulnerability to make path matching pass despite the intention of the program author.
The Built-in methods File.fnmatch and its alias File.fnmatch? accept the path pattern as their first parameter. When the pattern contains NUL character (\0), the methods recognize that the path pattern ends immediately before the NUL byte. Therefore, a script that uses an external input as the pattern argument, an attacker can make it wrongly match a pathname that is the second parameter.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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