Mageia: 2019-0123 Urgent: Ruby-Ox Encountered Segmentation Fault
mageia
April 5, 2019
In the Ox gem 2.8.0 for Ruby, the process crashes with a segmentation fault when a crafted input is supplied to parse_obj (CVE-2017-15928)
Summary
In the Ox gem 2.8.0 for Ruby, the process crashes with a segmentation fault
when a crafted input is supplied to parse_obj (CVE-2017-15928).
Also, the package was broken and has been fixed to function properly.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22050
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/OK6EYA4PVGIWEVEFBF2JSYUCEO7HG7FS/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15928
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/ruby-ox-2.8.2-1.mga6
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Publication date: 05 Apr 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0123.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2017-15928
Topics Covered
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