ELSA-2013-0129 -- Oracle rubyID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1500051 | Date: (C)2013-03-20 (M)2023-12-07 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Updated ruby packages that fix two security issues and one bug are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section. Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. Ithas features to process text files and to do system management tasks. It was found that certain methods did not sanitize file names beforepassing them to lower layer routines in Ruby. If a Ruby application createdfiles with names based on untrusted input, it could result in the creationof files with different names than expected. It was found that the RHSA-2011:0909 update did not correctly fix theCVE-2011-1005 issue, a flaw in the method for translating an exceptionmessage into a string in the Exception class. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass safe level 4 restrictions, allowing untrusted code to modify arbitrary, trusted strings, which safe level 4restrictions would otherwise prevent. The CVE-2012-4481 issue was discovered by Vit Ondruch of Red Hat. This update also fixes the following bug:* Prior to this update, the "rb_syck_mktime" option could, under certain circumstances, terminate with a segmentation fault when installing libraries with certain gems. This update modifies the underlying code sothat Ruby gems can be installed as expected. All users of Ruby are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.