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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2019-8324) ELSA-2019-1235: ruby security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2019-8324) ELSA-2019-1235: ruby security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/05/2019
Created
05/18/2019
Added
05/16/2019
Modified
11/22/2022

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-tcltk
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygems
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-rubygems-devel

References

  • ELSA-2019-1235
  • CVE-2019-8324
  • USN-3945-1

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