RHSA-2019:1148: Important: rh-ruby25-ruby security, bug fix, and enhancement update

First published: Mon May 13 2019(Updated: )

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.<br>The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-ruby25-ruby (2.5.5). (BZ#1700274)<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> rubygems: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-8324)</li> <li> rubygems: Delete directory using symlink when decompressing tar (CVE-2019-8320)</li> <li> rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in verbose (CVE-2019-8321)</li> <li> rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner (CVE-2019-8322)</li> <li> rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in API response handling (CVE-2019-8323)</li> <li> rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in errors (CVE-2019-8325)</li> 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.

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