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High ELSA-2018-3738 1 CVE

Important: ruby security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Nov 29, 2018 · Updated Nov 29, 2018

Summary

[2.0.0.648-34]
- CVE-2018-16395: Fix OpenSSL::X509::Name equality check does not work.
Resolves: CVE-2018-16395

Fixed packages 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 ruby 0:2.0.0.648-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 ruby-devel 0:2.0.0.648-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 ruby-doc 0:2.0.0.648-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 ruby-irb 0:2.0.0.648-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 ruby-libs 0:2.0.0.648-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 ruby-tcltk 0:2.0.0.648-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 rubygem-bigdecimal 0:1.2.0-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 rubygem-io-console 0:0.4.2-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 rubygem-json 0:1.7.7-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 rubygem-minitest 0:4.3.2-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 rubygem-psych 0:2.0.0-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 rubygem-rake 0:0.9.6-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 rubygem-rdoc 0:4.0.0-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 rubygems 0:2.0.14.1-34.el7_6
Oracle Linux · 7 rubygems-devel 0:2.0.14.1-34.el7_6

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2018-16395 EPSS 11%

    Ruby Openssl Allows Incorrect Value Comparison

    An issue was discovered in the OpenSSL library in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. When two OpenSSL::X509::Name objects are compared using ==, depending on the ordering, non-equal objects may return t…