Synopsis
Important: rh-ruby24-ruby security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for rh-ruby24-ruby is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.
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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-ruby24-ruby (2.4.3). (BZ#1549651)
Security Fix(es):
- ruby: Command injection vulnerability in Net::FTP (CVE-2017-17405)
- ruby: Command injection in lib/resolv.rb:lazy_initialize() allows arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-17790)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1526189 - CVE-2017-17405 ruby: Command injection vulnerability in Net::FTP
- BZ - 1528218 - CVE-2017-17790 ruby: Command injection in lib/resolv.rb:lazy_initialize() allows arbitrary code execution
- BZ - 1549651 - Rebase to the latest Ruby 2.4 point release
CVEs
References