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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201710-01">
  <title>RubyGems: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in RubyGems, the worst of which
    allows execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">rubygems</product>
  <announced>2017-10-08</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-10-08</revised>
  <bug>629230</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-ruby/rubygems" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.6.13</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.6.13</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>RubyGems is a sophisticated package manager for Ruby.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RubyGems. Please review
      the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
    </p>
    
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>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.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All RubyGems users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.6.13"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-0899">
      CVE-2017-0899
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-0900">
      CVE-2017-0900
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-0901">
      CVE-2017-0901
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-0902">
      CVE-2017-0902
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-03T14:54:42Z">chrisadr</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-08T12:53:26Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>