ALAS-2021-1506

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-31799  

RDoc before version 6.3.1 used to call Kernel#open to open a local file. If a Ruby project has a file whose name starts with "|" and ends with "tags", the command following the pipe character is executed. A malicious Ruby project could exploit it to run an arbitrary command execution against a user who attempts to run the rdoc command. (CVE-2021-31799)

ALAS-2021-1506


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1506
Advisory Release Date: 2021-05-20 21:12 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-05-21 18:51 Pacific
Severity: Low
References: CVE-2021-31799 

Issue Overview:

RDoc before version 6.3.1 used to call Kernel#open to open a local file. If a Ruby project has a file whose name starts with "|" and ends with "tags", the command following the pipe character is executed. A malicious Ruby project could exploit it to run an arbitrary command execution against a user who attempts to run the rdoc command. (CVE-2021-31799)


Affected Packages:

ruby24


Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby24 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    ruby24-devel-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-io-console-0.4.6-2.15.amzn1.i686
    ruby24-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-xmlrpc-0.2.1-2.15.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-bigdecimal-1.3.2-2.15.amzn1.i686
    ruby24-debuginfo-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-psych-2.2.2-2.15.amzn1.i686
    ruby24-libs-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-net-telnet-0.1.1-2.15.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-json-2.0.4-2.15.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    rubygem24-rdoc-5.0.1-2.15.amzn1.noarch
    ruby24-irb-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.noarch
    rubygem24-power_assert-0.4.1-2.15.amzn1.noarch
    rubygems24-2.6.14.4-2.15.amzn1.noarch
    rubygems24-devel-2.6.14.4-2.15.amzn1.noarch
    rubygem24-did_you_mean-1.1.0-2.15.amzn1.noarch
    rubygem24-minitest5-5.10.1-2.15.amzn1.noarch
    rubygem24-test-unit-3.2.3-2.15.amzn1.noarch
    ruby24-doc-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.noarch

src:
    ruby24-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    ruby24-devel-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
    ruby24-debuginfo-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-xmlrpc-0.2.1-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
    ruby24-libs-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-psych-2.2.2-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
    ruby24-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-json-2.0.4-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-net-telnet-0.1.1-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-io-console-0.4.6-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-bigdecimal-1.3.2-2.15.amzn1.x86_64