Important: ruby:2.5 security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-36327  

Synopsis

Important: ruby:2.5 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for the ruby:2.5 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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):

  • rubygem-bundler: Dependencies of gems with explicit source may be installed from a different source (CVE-2020-36327)

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.

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1958999 - CVE-2020-36327 rubygem-bundler: Dependencies of gems with explicit source may be installed from a different source