ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.3, ruby2.5 vulnerabilities

5 November 2018

ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.3, ruby2.5 vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Ruby.

Software Description

• ruby2.5 - Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby
• ruby2.3 - Object-oriented scripting language
• ruby1.9.1 - Object-oriented scripting language
• ruby2.0 - Object-oriented scripting language

Details

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain X.509 certificates. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass the certificate check. (CVE-2018-16395)

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-16396)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10

libruby2.5 - 2.5.1-5ubuntu4.1

ruby2.5 - 2.5.1-5ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libruby2.5 - 2.5.1-1ubuntu1.1

ruby2.5 - 2.5.1-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libruby2.3 - 2.3.1-2~16.04.11

ruby2.3 - 2.3.1-2~16.04.11

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libruby1.9.1 - 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.13

libruby2.0 - 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.11

ruby1.9.1 - 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.13

ruby1.9.3 - 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.13

ruby2.0 - 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.11

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-2018-16395
• CVE-2018-16396