8.8 - RHSA-2019:1150

Problem Description:

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

3. 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 (2.4.6). (BZ#1700275)

Security Fix(es):

* rubygems: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-8324)

* rubygems: Delete directory using symlink when decompressing tar (CVE-2019-8320)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in verbose (CVE-2019-8321)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner (CVE-2019-8322)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in API response handling (CVE-2019-8323)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in errors (CVE-2019-8325)

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.

4. 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

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1692512 - CVE-2019-8320 rubygems: Delete directory using symlink when decompressing tar 1692514 - CVE-2019-8321 rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in verbose 1692516 - CVE-2019-8322 rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner 1692519 - CVE-2019-8323 rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in API response handling 1692520 - CVE-2019-8324 rubygems: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution 1692522 - CVE-2019-8325 rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in errors 1700275 - Rebase to the latest Ruby 2.4 point release [3.2.z]