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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6: RHSA-2020-2839-01 Moderate Ruby Security Fix

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 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: Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives (CVE-2018-16396)
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 moderate Red Hat update security impact ruby

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16396 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: ruby-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.src.rpm
noarch: ruby-irb-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm rubygem-rdoc-4.0.0-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm rubygems-2.0.14.1-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ruby-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.i686.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.i686.rpm ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm rubygem-json-1.7.7-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm rubygem-psych-2.0.0-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6):
noarch: ruby-doc-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm rubygem-minitest-4.3.2-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm rubygem-rake-0.9.6-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm rubygems-devel-2.0.14.1-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: ruby-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.src.rpm
noarch: ruby-irb-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm rubygem-rdoc-4.0.0-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm rubygems-2.0.14.1-38.el7_6.noarch.rpm
ppc64: ruby-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.ppc64.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-38.el7_6.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2839-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2839
Issue date: 2020-07-07

Topic

An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat update security impact ruby

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

1643089 - CVE-2018-16396 ruby: Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives

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