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Ubuntu: USN-4201-1 (CVE-2019-16255): Ruby vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4201-1 (CVE-2019-16255): Ruby vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/01/2019
Created
11/30/2019
Added
11/27/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

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

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