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SUSE: CVE-2019-16255: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2019-16255: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/01/2019
Created
03/24/2020
Added
03/21/2020
Modified
10/22/2021

Description

Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows code injection if the first argument (aka the "command" argument) to Shell#[] or Shell#test in lib/shell.rb is untrusted data. An attacker can exploit this to call an arbitrary Ruby method.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libruby2_1-2_1
  • suse-upgrade-libruby2_5-2_5
  • suse-upgrade-ruby2-1
  • suse-upgrade-ruby2-1-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ruby2-1-stdlib
  • suse-upgrade-ruby2-5
  • suse-upgrade-ruby2-5-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ruby2-5-devel-extra
  • suse-upgrade-ruby2-5-doc
  • suse-upgrade-ruby2-5-doc-ri
  • suse-upgrade-ruby2-5-stdlib
  • suse-upgrade-yast2-ruby-bindings

References

  • SUSE-SU-2020:0737-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:1570-1
  • CVE-2019-16255
  • USN-4201-1

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