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High ALSA-2019:1972 1 CVE

Important: ruby:2.5 security update

Published Jul 30, 2019 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

Security Fix(es):

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

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.

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+2623+08a8ba32
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt-doc 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt-doc 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+2623+08a8ba32
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson 4.3.0-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson 4.3.0-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson-doc 4.3.0-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson-doc 4.3.0-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo 2.5.1-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo 2.5.1-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo-doc 2.5.1-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo-doc 2.5.1-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0.4.10-4.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0.4.10-4.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2-doc 0.4.10-4.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2-doc 0.4.10-4.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg 1.0.0-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg 1.0.0-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg-doc 1.0.0-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg-doc 1.0.0-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.8

    Code injection in RubyGems

    An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec du…

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-8324