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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-1855: Vulnerability in Ruby

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-1855: Vulnerability in Ruby

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-2-upgrade-runtime-ruby-18-1-8-7-374-0-175-2-12-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-2-upgrade-runtime-ruby-19-1-9-3-551-0-175-2-13-0-4-0

References

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