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FreeBSD: VID-3F6DE636-8CDB-11E7-9C71-F0DEF1FD7EA2: rubygems -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/29/2017
Modified
09/19/2017

Description

Official blog of RubyGems reports:

The following vulnerabilities have been reported: a DNS request

hijacking vulnerability, an ANSI escape sequence vulnerability, a DoS

vulnerability in the query command, and a vulnerability in the gem

installer that allowed a malicious gem to overwrite arbitrary

files.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-ruby22-gems
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-ruby23-gems
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-ruby24-gems

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