Advisories » MGASA-2021-0172

Updated ruby-em-http-request packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Apr 2021
Modification date: 02 Apr 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-13482

Description

Updated ruby-em-http-request packages fix security vulnerability:

A flaw was found in rubygem-em-http-request. The eventmachine library does
not verify the hostname in a TLS server certificate which can allow an
attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. The highest threat from this
vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity (CVE-2020-13482).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27976
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/Z32PUJA6RGBZ3TKSOTGUXZ45662S3MVF/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13482

SRPMS

7/core

• ruby-em-http-request-1.1.7-1.mga7