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Red Hat: RHSA-2019:2565-01 Important: Ruby OpenSSL Issue

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial security patch for Ruby on RHEL addresses multiple vulnerabilities. Check out the steps to upgrade.
An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support

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):
* ruby: OpenSSL::X509::Name equality check does not work correctly (CVE-2018-16395)
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 update red hat important ruby open ssl

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16395 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5):
Source: ruby-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.src.rpm
noarch: ruby-irb-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm rubygem-rdoc-4.0.0-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm rubygems-2.0.14.1-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ruby-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.i686.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.i686.rpm ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm rubygem-json-1.7.7-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm rubygem-psych-2.0.0-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.5):
noarch: ruby-doc-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm rubygem-minitest-4.3.2-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm rubygem-rake-0.9.6-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm rubygems-devel-2.0.14.1-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5):
Source: ruby-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.src.rpm
noarch: ruby-irb-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm rubygem-rdoc-4.0.0-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm rubygems-2.0.14.1-34.el7_5.noarch.rpm
ppc64: ruby-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.ppc64.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-34.el7_5.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2565-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2565
Issue date: 2019-08-27

Topic

An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5Extended Update Support.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 update red hat important ruby open ssl

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1643086 - CVE-2018-16395 ruby: OpenSSL::X509::Name equality check does not work correctly

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