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High ALAS2-2024-2486 5 CVEs

Important: ruby security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 29, 2024 · Updated Mar 4, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-41819: CGI::Cookie.parse in Ruby through 2.6.8 mishandles security prefixes in cookie names. This also affects the CGI gem through 0.3.0 for Ruby. CVE-2019-16255: Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows code injection if the first argument (aka the "command" argument) to Shell#[] or Shell#test in lib/shell.rb is untrusted data. An attacker can exploit this to call an arbitrary Ruby method. CVE-2019-16254: Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows HTTP Response Splitting. If a program using WEBrick inserts untrusted input into the response header, an attacker can exploit it to insert a newline character to split a header, and inject malicious content to deceive clients. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-17742, which addressed the CRLF vector, but did not address an isolated CR or an isolated LF. CVE-2019-16201: WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. A victim must expose a WEBrick server that uses DigestAuth to the Internet or a untrusted network. CVE-2019-15845: A flaw was discovered in Ruby in the way certain functions handled strings containing NULL bytes. Specifically, the built-in methods File.fnmatch and its alias File.fnmatch? did not properly handle path patterns containing the NULL byte. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to make a Ruby script access unexpected files and to bypass intended file system access restrictions.

Fixed packages 16

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-debuginfo 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-devel 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-doc 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-irb 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-libs 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-tcltk 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-bigdecimal 0:1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-io-console 0:0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-json 0:1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-minitest 0:4.3.2-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-psych 0:2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-rake 0:0.9.6-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-rdoc 0:4.0.0-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygems 0:2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygems-devel 0:2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.7

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-15845.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-16201.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-16254.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-16255.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-41819.html