vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-3365-1 (CVE-2009-5147): Ruby vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Mar 29, 2017 | Jul 26, 2017 | Apr 25, 2025 |
Description
It was discovered that Ruby DL::dlopen incorrectly handled opening
libraries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to open libraries with
tainted names. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2009-5147)
Tony Arcieri, Jeffrey Walton, and Steffan Ullrich discovered that the Ruby
OpenSSL extension incorrectly handled hostname wildcard matching. This
issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-1855)
Christian Hofstaedtler discovered that Ruby Fiddle::Handle incorrectly
handled certain crafted strings. An attacker could use this issue to cause
a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only
applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-7551)
It was discovered that Ruby Net::SMTP incorrectly handled CRLF sequences. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject SMTP commands.
(CVE-2015-9096)
Marcin Noga discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain arguments in
a TclTkIp class method. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-2337)
It was discovered that Ruby Fiddle::Function.new incorrectly handled
certain arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2339)
It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled the initialization vector
(IV) in GCM mode. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass
encryption. (CVE-2016-7798)
Solution(s)

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