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RedHat: RHSA-2019:1972-01 Important: Ruby 2.5 Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 30, 2019
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An update for the ruby:2.5 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 red hat code execution ruby important update arbitrary access module

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: ruby-2.5.3-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.src.rpm rubygem-abrt-0.3.0-4.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.src.rpm rubygem-bson-4.3.0-2.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.src.rpm rubygem-bundler-1.16.1-3.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.src.rpm rubygem-mongo-2.5.1-2.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.src.rpm rubygem-mysql2-0.4.10-4.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.src.rpm rubygem-pg-1.0.0-2.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.src.rpm
aarch64: ruby-2.5.3-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.5.3-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm ruby-debugsource-2.5.3-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm ruby-devel-2.5.3-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm ruby-libs-2.5.3-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm ruby-libs-debuginfo-2.5.3-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-1.3.4-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo-1.3.4-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-4.3.0-2.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-debuginfo-4.3.0-2.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-debugsource-4.3.0-2.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm rubygem-io-console-0.4.6-104.module+el8.0.0+3250+4b7d6d43.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:1972-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972
Issue date: 2019-07-30

Topic

An update for the ruby:2.5 module is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 8.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 code execution ruby important update arbitrary access module

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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