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High RLSA-2019:1972 1 CVE

Important: ruby:2.5 security update

Published Jul 30, 2019 · Updated Feb 4, 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 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0:0.3.0-4.module+el8.5.0+738+032c9c02
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0:0.3.0-4.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0:0.3.0-4.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-bson 0:4.3.0-2.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-bson 0:4.3.0-2.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-bundler 0:1.16.1-3.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-bundler 0:1.16.1-3.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mongo 0:2.5.1-2.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mongo 0:2.5.1-2.module+el8.4.0+349+3470f258
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.5.0+739+43897a5e
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-pg 0:1.0.0-2.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-pg 0:1.0.0-2.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1692520