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Critical RHSA-2018:3729 15 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-ruby23-ruby security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 40

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-ruby 0:2.3.8-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-ruby-debuginfo 0:2.3.8-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-ruby-devel 0:2.3.8-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-ruby-doc 0:2.3.8-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-ruby-irb 0:2.3.8-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-ruby-libs 0:2.3.8-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-ruby-tcltk 0:2.3.8-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-bigdecimal 0:1.2.8-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-did_you_mean 0:1.0.0-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-io-console 0:0.4.5-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-json 0:1.8.3.1-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-minitest 0:5.8.5-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-net-telnet 0:0.1.1-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-power_assert 0:0.2.6-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-psych 0:2.1.0.1-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-rake 0:10.4.2-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-rdoc 0:4.2.1-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygem-test-unit 0:3.1.5-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygems 0:2.5.2.3-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el6 rh-ruby23-rubygems-devel 0:2.5.2.3-69.el6
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-ruby 0:2.3.8-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-ruby-debuginfo 0:2.3.8-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-ruby-devel 0:2.3.8-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-ruby-doc 0:2.3.8-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-ruby-irb 0:2.3.8-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-ruby-libs 0:2.3.8-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-ruby-tcltk 0:2.3.8-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-bigdecimal 0:1.2.8-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-did_you_mean 0:1.0.0-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-io-console 0:0.4.5-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-json 0:1.8.3.1-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-minitest 0:5.8.5-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-net-telnet 0:0.1.1-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-power_assert 0:0.2.6-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-psych 0:2.1.0.1-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-rake 0:10.4.2-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-rdoc 0:4.2.1-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygem-test-unit 0:3.1.5-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygems 0:2.5.2.3-69.el7
Red Hat · RHEL 3 rhel_software_collections:3::el7 rh-ruby23-rubygems-devel 0:2.5.2.3-69.el7

Vulnerabilities 15

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2018-1000076

    RubyGems Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability

    RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerab…

    ruby2.3 jruby ruby2.0 rubygems Debian Ubuntu Maven RubyGems
  • 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…

    ruby2.3 ruby ruby2.5 ruby2.0 Ubuntu Alpine RubyGems
  • High 7.8
    CVE-2018-1000074

    RubyGems Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability

    RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in owner …

    ruby2.3 jruby ruby2.0 ruby1.9.1 Debian Ubuntu Maven RubyGems
  • High 7.5
    CVE-2018-1000073

    RubyGems Link Following vulnerability

    RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in install_location fun…

    ruby2.3 jruby ruby2.0 rubygems Debian Ubuntu Maven RubyGems
  • High 7.5
    CVE-2018-1000075

    RubyGems Infinite Loop vulnerability

    RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a infinite loop caused by negative size vulnerability in ru…

    ruby2.3 jruby ruby2.0 ruby1.9.1 Debian Ubuntu Maven RubyGems
  • Medium 6.1
    CVE-2018-1000078

    RubyGems Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

    RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in gem server di…

    ruby2.3 jruby ruby2.0 ruby1.9.1 Debian Ubuntu Maven RubyGems
  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2018-1000079

    RubyGems Path Traversal vulnerability

    RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in gem installation tha…

    ruby2.3 jruby ruby2.0 rubygems Debian Ubuntu Maven RubyGems
  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2018-1000077

    RubyGems Improper Input Validation vulnerability

    RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Improper Input Validation vulnerability in ruby gems spec…

    ruby2.3 jruby ruby2.0 ruby1.9.1 Debian Ubuntu Maven RubyGems
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2017-17742

    Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 allows an HTTP Respo…

    ruby2.3 ruby jruby ruby2.0 Debian Ubuntu Alpine
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2018-16396

    An issue was discovered 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. …

    ruby2.3 ruby ruby2.5 ruby2.0 Ubuntu Alpine
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2018-6914 EPSS 10%

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir.mktmpdir method in the tmpdir library in Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before …

    ruby2.3 ruby ruby2.0 ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu Alpine
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2018-8777

    In Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1, an attacker can …

    ruby2.3 ruby ruby2.0 ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu Alpine
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2018-8778

    In Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1, an attacker cont…

    ruby2.3 ruby ruby2.0 ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu Alpine
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2018-8779

    In Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1, the UNIXServer.o…

    ruby2.3 ruby ruby2.0 ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu Alpine
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2018-8780

    In Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1, the Dir.open, Di…

    ruby2.3 ruby ruby2.0 ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547418
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547419
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547420
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547421
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547422
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547425
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547426
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561947
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561948
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561949
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561950
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561952
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561953
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643086
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643089
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1650591
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2018/rhsa-2018_3729.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17742
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17742
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17742
  • article
    https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/http-response-splitting-in-webrick-cve-2017-17742/
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6914
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6914
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6914
  • article
    https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/unintentional-file-and-directory-creation-with-directory-traversal-cve-2018-6914/
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8777
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8777
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8777
  • article
    https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/large-request-dos-in-webrick-cve-2018-8777/
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8778
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8778
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8778
  • article
    https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/buffer-under-read-unpack-cve-2018-8778/
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8779
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8779
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8779
  • article
    https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/poisoned-nul-byte-unixsocket-cve-2018-8779/
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8780