CVE-2018-16395 Affecting ruby-irb package, versions <0:2.0.0.648-34.el7_6


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.72% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-RUBYIRB-2530785
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed16 Nov 2018

Introduced: 16 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-16395  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 ruby-irb to version 0:2.0.0.648-34.el7_6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2018-3738.

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 Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the OpenSSL library 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. When two OpenSSL::X509::Name objects are compared using ==, depending on the ordering, non-equal objects may return true. When the first argument is one character longer than the second, or the second argument contains a character that is one less than a character in the same position of the first argument, the result of == will be true. This could be leveraged to create an illegitimate certificate that may be accepted as legitimate and then used in signing or encryption operations.

CVSS Base Scores

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