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CVE-2018-16396 Affecting ruby-irb package, versions <0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.41% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-RUBYIRB-1673558
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 16 Nov 2018
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Introduced: 16 Nov 2018

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How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 ruby-irb to version 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1276.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-irb package and not the ruby-irb package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats.

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