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Red Hat: CVE-2019-8324: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2019-8324: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/15/2019
Created
05/17/2019
Added
05/16/2019
Modified
12/15/2023

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-ruby
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-libs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-tcltk
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-abrt
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-abrt-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bundler
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bundler-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-did_you_mean
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-io-console-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-json-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mongo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mongo-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-net-telnet
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-openssl
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-openssl-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-power_assert
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-psych-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-test-unit
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-xmlrpc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygems
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygems-devel

References

  • CVE-2019-8324
  • RHSA-2019:1235
  • RHSA-2019:1972

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