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Rocky Linux: CVE-2019-8324: ruby-2.5 (RLSA-2019-1972)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2019-8324: ruby-2.5 (RLSA-2019-1972)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/17/2019
Created
03/13/2024
Added
03/12/2024
Modified
03/12/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-abrt
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-abrt-doc
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-bson
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-bson-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-bson-debugsource
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-bson-doc
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-bundler
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-bundler-doc
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-mongo
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-mongo-doc
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-debugsource
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-doc
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-pg
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-pg-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-pg-debugsource
  • rocky-upgrade-rubygem-pg-doc

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