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Red Hat 7: RHSA-2018:0584-01 Important Command Injection Fix

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2018
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Crucial revision for rh-ruby24-ruby mitigates command execution vulnerabilities, enhancing safety within Red Hat Software Collections.
An update for rh-ruby24-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-ruby24-ruby (2.4.3). (BZ#1549651)
Security Fix(es):
* ruby: Command injection vulnerability in Net::FTP (CVE-2017-17405)
* 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat security fix important ruby command injection product update

References

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-ruby24-ruby-2.4.3-90.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ruby24-ruby-doc-2.4.3-90.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby24-ruby-irb-2.4.3-90.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-minitest-5.10.1-90.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-power_assert-0.4.1-90.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-rake-12.0.0-90.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-rdoc-5.0.0-90.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-test-unit-3.2.3-90.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-xmlrpc-0.2.1-90.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygems-2.6.14-90.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygems-devel-2.6.14-90.el6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: rh-ruby24-ruby-2.4.3-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-ruby-debuginfo-2.4.3-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-ruby-devel-2.4.3-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-ruby-libs-2.4.3-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-bigdecimal-1.3.0-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-did_you_mean-1.1.0-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-io-console-0.4.6-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-json-2.0.4-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-net-telnet-0.1.1-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-openssl-2.0.5-90.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby24-rubygem-psych-2.2.2-90.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: rh-ruby24-ruby-2.4.3-90.el6.src.rpm
noarch:

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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0584-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0584
Issue date: 2018-03-26

Topic

An update for rh-ruby24-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 security fix important ruby command injection product update

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

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

1549651 - Rebase to the latest Ruby 2.4 point release

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