USN-4175-1: Nokogiri vulnerability
USN-4175-1: Nokogiri vulnerability ruby-nokogiri vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Nokogiri could be made to execute programs if it received specially crafted input. Software Description ruby-nokogiri – HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser for Ruby Details It was discovered that Nokogiri incorrectly handled inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary OS commands. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.10 ruby-nokogiri – 1.10.3+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 19.04 ruby-nokogiri – 1.10.0+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ruby-nokogiri – 1.8.2-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ruby-nokogiri – 1.6.7.2-3ubuntu0.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2019-5477 Source: USN-4175-1: Nokogiri vulnerability