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openSUSE 2020:1677-1 Critical Alert for rubygem-activesupport-5_1 RCE

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Calendar Grey October 16, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch resolves a significant vulnerability in openSUSE's rubygem-activesupport-5_2, thwarting remote command execution.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for rubygem-activesupport-5_1 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-8165: Fixed deserialization of untrusted data in MemCacheStore

potentially resulting in remote code execution (bsc#1172186)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical remote code execution openSUSE rubygem

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1677=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

ruby2.5-rubygem-activesupport-5_1-5.1.4-lp151.3.3.1

ruby2.5-rubygem-activesupport-doc-5_1-5.1.4-lp151.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8165.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172186

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1677-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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security advisory update critical remote code execution openSUSE rubygem

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