Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby2.5 (opens in a new tab)
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- published13 Mar 2018
- disclosed13 Mar 2018
Introduced: 13 Mar 2018
CVE-2018-1000079 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.5 package and not the ruby2.5 package as distributed by Debian.
RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in gem installation that can result in the gem could write to arbitrary filesystem locations during installation. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must install a malicious gem. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000079
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4219
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4259
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html
- https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/666ef793cad42eed96f7aee1cdf77865db921099
- https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/f83f911e19e27cbac1ccce7471d96642241dd759
- http://blog.rubygems.org/2018/02/15/2.7.6-released.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0542
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0591
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0663
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-1000079
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3621-1/