ruby1.9.1, ruby2.3 vulnerabilities

10 January 2018

ruby1.9.1, ruby2.3 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Ruby.

Software Description

• ruby2.3 - Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby
• ruby1.9.1 - Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby

Details

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain terminal emulator escape sequences. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code via a crafted user name. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2017-10784)

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain strings. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2017-14033)

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled some generating JSON. An attacker could use this to possible expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2017-14064)

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-17790)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.10

libruby2.3 - 2.3.3-1ubuntu1.2

ruby2.3 - 2.3.3-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libruby2.3 - 2.3.1-2~16.04.5

ruby2.3 - 2.3.1-2~16.04.5

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libruby1.9.1 - 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.7

ruby1.9.1 - 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.7

ruby1.9.3 - 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.7

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-10784
• CVE-2017-14033
• CVE-2017-14064
• CVE-2017-17790