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Ubuntu: USN-4201-1 (CVE-2019-16201): Ruby vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/01/2019
Created
11/30/2019
Added
11/27/2019
Modified
01/22/2020

Description

WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. A victim must expose a WEBrick server that uses DigestAuth to the Internet or a untrusted network.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby2-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby2-5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-5

Related Vulnerabilities

  • USN-4201-1
  • CVE-2019-16201

References

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby2-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby2-5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-5

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