Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities

Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Ruby, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code. ruby 2020-03-13 2020-03-13 696004 remote 2.4.9 2.5.7 2.4.9 2.5.7

Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The elaborate standard library includes an HTTP server (“WEBRick”) and a class for XML parsing (“REXML”).

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code, have unauthorized access by bypassing intended path matching or cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Ruby 2.4.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-2.4.9:2.4"

All Ruby 2.5.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-2.5.7:2.5"

CVE-2019-15845 CVE-2019-16201 CVE-2019-16254 CVE-2019-16255 whissi whissi