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Ubuntu: USN-3626-1 (CVE-2018-6914): Ruby vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3626-1 (CVE-2018-6914): Ruby vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/03/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2018
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir.mktmpdir method in the tmpdir library in Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 might allow attackers to create arbitrary directories or files via a .. (dot dot) in the prefix argument.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby1-9-1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby2-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby2-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby1-9-1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby1-9-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-3

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