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Red Hat 6 & 7: RHSA-2018-0583-01 Critical Command Injection Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2018
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Crucial notification regarding rh-ruby22-ruby related to command injection and buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Implement the patch immediately!
An update for rh-ruby22-ruby is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-ruby22-ruby (2.2.9), rh-ruby22-rubygems (2.4.5.4), rh-ruby22-rubygem-psych (2.0.8.1), rh-ruby22-rubygem-json (1.8.1.1). (BZ#1549646)
Security Fix(es):
* ruby: Command injection vulnerability in Net::FTP (CVE-2017-17405)
* ruby: Buffer underrun vulnerability in Kernel.sprintf (CVE-2017-0898)
* rubygems: Arbitrary file overwrite due to incorrect validation of specification name (CVE-2017-0901)
* rubygems: DNS hijacking vulnerability (CVE-2017-0902)
* rubygems: Unsafe object deserialization through YAML formatted gem specifications (CVE-2017-0903)
* ruby: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in the Basic authentication of WEBrick (CVE-2017-10784)
* ruby: Buffer underrun in OpenSSL ASN1 decode (CVE-2017-14033)
* ruby: DL::dlopen could open a library with tainted library name (CVE-2009-5147, CVE-2015-7551)
* rubygems: Escape sequence in the "summary" field of gemspec (CVE-2017-0899)
* rubygems: No size limit in summary length of gem spec (CVE-2017-0900)
* ruby: Arbitrary heap exposure during a JSON.generate call (CVE-2017-14064)
* ruby: Command injection in lib/resolv.rb:lazy_initialize() allows arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-17790)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow software fix command injection

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-5147 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7551 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-0898 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-0899 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-0900 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-0901 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-0902 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-0903 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10784 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14033 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14064 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17405 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17790 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: rh-ruby22-ruby-2.2.9-19.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ruby22-ruby-doc-2.2.9-19.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby22-ruby-irb-2.2.9-19.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-minitest-5.4.3-19.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-power_assert-0.2.2-19.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-rake-10.4.2-19.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-rdoc-4.2.0-19.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-test-unit-3.0.8-19.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygems-devel-2.4.5.4-19.el6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: rh-ruby22-ruby-2.2.9-19.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby22-ruby-debuginfo-2.2.9-19.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby22-ruby-devel-2.2.9-19.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby22-ruby-libs-2.2.9-19.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby22-ruby-tcltk-2.2.9-19.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.6-19.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-io-console-0.4.3-19.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-json-1.8.1.1-19.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-psych-2.0.8.1-19.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygems-2.4.5.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: rh-ruby22-ruby-2.2.9-19.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ruby22-ruby-doc-2.2.9-19.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby22-ruby-irb-2.2.9-19.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby22-rubygem-minitest-5.4.3-19.el6.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0583-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583
Issue date: 2018-03-26

Topic

An update for rh-ruby22-ruby is now available for Red Hat SoftwareCollections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow software fix command injection

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1248935 - CVE-2009-5147 CVE-2015-7551 ruby: DL::dlopen could open a library with tainted library name

1487552 - CVE-2017-14064 ruby: Arbitrary heap exposure during a JSON.generate call

1487587 - CVE-2017-0901 rubygems: Arbitrary file overwrite due to incorrect validation of specification name

1487588 - CVE-2017-0900 rubygems: No size limit in summary length of gem spec

1487589 - CVE-2017-0902 rubygems: DNS hijacking vulnerability

1487590 - CVE-2017-0899 rubygems: Escape sequence in the "summary" field of gemspec

1491866 - CVE-2017-14033 ruby: Buffer underrun in OpenSSL ASN1 decode

1492012 - CVE-2017-10784 ruby: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in the Basic authentication of WEBrick

1492015 - CVE-2017-0898 ruby: Buffer underrun vulnerability in Kernel.sprintf

1500488 - CVE-2017-0903 rubygems: Unsafe object deserialization through YAML formatted gem specifications

1526189 - CVE-2017-17405 ruby: Command injection vulnerability in Net::FTP

1528218 - CVE-2017-17790 ruby: Command injection in lib/resolv.rb:lazy_initialize() allows arbitrary code execution

1549646 - Rebase to the latest Ruby 2.2 point release

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