USN-3365-1: Ruby vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3365-1
25th July, 2017
ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.3 vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in Ruby.
Software description
- ruby1.9.1
– Object-oriented scripting language - ruby2.0
– Object-oriented scripting language - ruby2.3
– Object-oriented scripting language
Details
It was discovered that Ruby DL::dlopen incorrectly handled opening
libraries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to open libraries with
tainted names. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2009-5147)
Tony Arcieri, Jeffrey Walton, and Steffan Ullrich discovered that the Ruby
OpenSSL extension incorrectly handled hostname wildcard matching. This
issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-1855)
Christian Hofstaedtler discovered that Ruby Fiddle::Handle incorrectly
handled certain crafted strings. An attacker could use this issue to cause
a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only
applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-7551)
It was discovered that Ruby Net::SMTP incorrectly handled CRLF sequences. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject SMTP commands.
(CVE-2015-9096)
Marcin Noga discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain arguments in
a TclTkIp class method. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-2337)
It was discovered that Ruby Fiddle::Function.new incorrectly handled
certain arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2339)
It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled the initialization vector
(IV) in GCM mode. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass
encryption. (CVE-2016-7798)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 17.04:
-
libruby2.3
2.3.3-1ubuntu0.1
-
ruby2.3
2.3.3-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
-
libruby2.3
2.3.1-2~16.04.2
-
ruby2.3
2.3.1-2~16.04.2
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libruby2.0
2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.4
-
ruby1.9.1
1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.3
-
libruby1.9.1
1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.3
-
ruby2.0
2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.4
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
Source: USN-3365-1: Ruby vulnerabilities