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

Announced

2017-10-08

Revised

2017-10-08

Access

remote

Bugs

#629230

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-01

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
dev-ruby/rubygems	*	< 2.6.13	>= 2.6.13

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

All RubyGems users should upgrade to the latest version:

# 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