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Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-8324: ELSA-2019-1972: ruby:2.5 security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-8324: ELSA-2019-1972: ruby:2.5 security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/05/2019
Created
05/18/2019
Added
05/16/2019
Modified
07/22/2024

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. A flaw was found in RubyGems. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-etworkmanager-glib-is-earlier-than-1-1-12-0-8
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-abrt
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-abrt-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-bson
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-bson-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-bundler
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-bundler-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-did-you-mean
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-mongo
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-mongo-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-net-telnet
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-openssl
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-pg
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-pg-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-power-assert
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygems
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygems-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-test-unit
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-xmlrpc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-tcltk

References

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