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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16395: Important: ruby security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16395: Important: ruby security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/16/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/30/2018
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in the OpenSSL library in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. When two OpenSSL::X509::Name objects are compared using ==, depending on the ordering, non-equal objects may return true. When the first argument is one character longer than the second, or the second argument contains a character that is one less than a character in the same position of the first argument, the result of == will be true. This could be leveraged to create an illegitimate certificate that may be accepted as legitimate and then used in signing or encryption operations.

Solution(s)

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

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