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Debian: CVE-2019-8324: jruby, ruby2.5, rubygems -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-8324: jruby, ruby2.5, rubygems -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/01/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/01/2019
Modified
11/04/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec during the preinstall check.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-jruby
  • debian-upgrade-ruby2-5
  • debian-upgrade-rubygems

References

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