[USN-5462-2] Ruby vulnerability

Severity Low

Affected Packages 5

CVEs 1

Ruby could be made to crash or read sensitive information when processing certain input.

USN-5462-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Ruby. This update provides
the corresponding CVE-2022-28739 update for ruby2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

Package	Affected Version
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ruby2.3?distro=xenial	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ruby2.3-tcltk?distro=xenial	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ruby2.3-doc?distro=xenial	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ruby2.3-dev?distro=xenial	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libruby2.3?distro=xenial	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3

ID

USN-5462-2

Severity

low

URL

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5462-2

Published

2022-06-06T22:21:58
(2 years ago)

Modified

2022-06-06T22:21:58
(2 years ago)

Other Advisories

Type	Package URL	Namespace	Name / Product	Version	Distribution / Platform
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ruby2.3?distro=xenial	ubuntu	ruby2.3	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3	xenial
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ruby2.3-tcltk?distro=xenial	ubuntu	ruby2.3-tcltk	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3	xenial
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ruby2.3-doc?distro=xenial	ubuntu	ruby2.3-doc	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3	xenial
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ruby2.3-dev?distro=xenial	ubuntu	ruby2.3-dev	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3	xenial
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/libruby2.3?distro=xenial	ubuntu	libruby2.3	< 2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm3	xenial

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# CVE	Description	CVSS	EPSS	EPSS Trend (30 days)	Affected Products	Weaknesses	Security Advisories	PoC	Pubblication Date	Modification Date