Advisories » MGASA-2017-0486

Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 31 Dec 2017
Modification date: 31 Dec 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-17405 , CVE-2017-17790

Description

Ruby before 2.4.3 allows Net::FTP command injection. Net::FTP#get,
getbinaryfile, gettextfile, put, putbinaryfile, and puttextfile use
Kernel#open to open a local file. If the localfile argument starts with
the "|" pipe character, the command following the pipe character is
executed. The default value of localfile is File.basename(remotefile),
so malicious FTP servers could cause arbitrary command execution
(CVE-2017-17405).

The lazy_initialize function in lib/resolv.rb in Ruby through 2.4.3 uses
Kernel#open, which might allow Command Injection attacks, as
demonstrated by a Resolv::Hosts::new argument beginning with a '|'
character (CVE-2017-17790).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22203
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/12/14/net-ftp-command-injection-cve-2017-17405/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17405
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17790

SRPMS

6/core

• ruby-2.2.8-1.1.mga6

5/core

• ruby-2.0.0.p648-1.6.mga5