RubyGems: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201710-01

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in RubyGems, the worst of which allows execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

Background

RubyGems is a sophisticated package manager for Ruby.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RubyGems. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing a user to install a specially crafted gem, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.6.13"
 

References

• CVE-2017-0899
• CVE-2017-0900
• CVE-2017-0901
• CVE-2017-0902

Release date
October 08, 2017

Latest revision
October 08, 2017: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 629230