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Ubuntu 19.10: USN-4175-1 Critical: Nokogiri Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-4175-1 highlights a vulnerability in ruby-nokogiri that poses a risk of remote code execution. Ensure your system is updated immediately!
Nokogiri could be made to execute programs if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

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security advisory security issue update remote code execution ubuntu arbitrary execution nokogiri

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.10: ruby-nokogiri 1.10.3+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 19.04: ruby-nokogiri 1.10.0+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: ruby-nokogiri 1.8.2-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: ruby-nokogiri 1.6.7.2-3ubuntu0.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4175-1

CVE-2019-5477

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November 05, 2019

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security advisory security issue update remote code execution ubuntu arbitrary execution nokogiri

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-nokogiri/1.10.3+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-nokogiri/1.10.0+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-nokogiri/1.8.2-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-nokogiri/1.6.7.2-3ubuntu0.1

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