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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-1151-01 Important: rh-ruby23-ruby Arbitrary Code Threat

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has announced a critical security patch for rh-ruby23-ruby targeting existing vulnerabilities and potential threats. Discover further details.
An update for rh-ruby23-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.
Security Fix(es):
* rubygems: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-8324)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat arbitrary code execution important redhat software collections rh-ruby23-ruby

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-8324 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: rh-ruby23-ruby-2.3.8-70.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ruby23-ruby-doc-2.3.8-70.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby23-ruby-irb-2.3.8-70.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-minitest-5.8.5-70.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-power_assert-0.2.6-70.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-rake-10.4.2-70.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-rdoc-4.2.1-70.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-test-unit-3.1.5-70.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygems-2.5.2.3-70.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygems-devel-2.5.2.3-70.el6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: rh-ruby23-ruby-2.3.8-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-ruby-debuginfo-2.3.8-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-ruby-devel-2.3.8-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-ruby-libs-2.3.8-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-ruby-tcltk-2.3.8-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.8-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-did_you_mean-1.0.0-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-io-console-0.4.5-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-json-1.8.3.1-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-net-telnet-0.1.1-70.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-ruby23-rubygem-psych-2.1.0.1-70.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: rh-ruby23-ruby-2.3.8-70.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ruby23-ruby-doc-2.3.8-70.el6.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:1151-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1151
Issue date: 2019-05-13

Topic

An update for rh-ruby23-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 security issue Red Hat arbitrary code execution important redhat software collections rh-ruby23-ruby

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. 7.4) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - 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

1692520 - CVE-2019-8324 rubygems: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution

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