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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-8324
An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec during the preinstall check.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
jruby
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.1.17.0-3"}]}]
Debian:13
jruby
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.1.17.0-3"}]}]
Debian:14
jruby
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.1.17.0-3"}]}]
Debian:12
rubygems
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.0~rc.1-1"}]}]
Debian:13
rubygems
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.0~rc.1-1"}]}]
Debian:14
rubygems
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.0~rc.1-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org