Mageia 2021-0172: ruby-em-http-request security update
Summary
Updated ruby-em-http-request packages fix security vulnerability:
A flaw was found in rubygem-em-http-request. The eventmachine library does
not verify the hostname in a TLS server certificate which can allow an
attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. The highest threat from this
vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity (CVE-2020-13482).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27976
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/Z32PUJA6RGBZ3TKSOTGUXZ45662S3MVF/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13482
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0172 - Updated ruby-em-http-request packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 7/core/ruby-em-http-request-1.1.7-1.mga7