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openSUSE: 2017:0933-1 Important: Ruby2.2 and Ruby2.3 Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical security fixes for ruby2.2 and ruby2.3 have been released for openSUSE. Users should apply these updates promptly to safeguard their systems
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for ruby2.2, ruby2.3 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2016-2339: heap overflow vulnerability in the

Fiddle::Function.new"initialize" (boo#1018808)

- CVE-2015-7551: Unsafe tainted string usage in Fiddle and DL (boo#959495)

Detailed ChangeLog:

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Topics Covered

security advisory important patch management update instructions openSUSE ruby heap overflow ruby tainted string

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-435=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-435=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

libruby2_2-2_2-2.2.6-6.3.1

libruby2_2-2_2-debuginfo-2.2.6-6.3.1

libruby2_3-2_3-2.3.3-2.3.1

libruby2_3-2_3-debuginfo-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.2-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.2-debuginfo-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.2-debugsource-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.2-devel-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.2-devel-extra-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.2-doc-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.2-stdlib-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.2-stdlib-debuginfo-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.2-tk-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.2-tk-debuginfo-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.3-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.3-debuginfo-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.3-debugsource-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.3-devel-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.3-devel-extra-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.3-doc-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.3-stdlib-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.3-stdlib-debuginfo-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.3-tk-2.3.3-2.3.1

ruby2.3-tk-debuginfo-2.3.3-2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

ruby2.2-doc-ri-2.2.6-6.3.1

ruby2.3-doc-ri-2.3.3-2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

libruby2_2-2_2-2.2.6-6.1

libruby2_2-2_2-debuginfo-2.2.6-6.1

ruby2.2-2.2.6-6.1

ruby2.2-debuginfo-2.2.6-6.1

ruby2.2-debugsource-2.2.6-6.1

ruby2.2-devel-2.2.6-6.1

ruby2.2-devel-extra-2....

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7551.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2339.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1018808

https://bugzilla.suse.com/959495

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0933-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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Topics Covered

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