Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-229
Advisory Release Date: 2013-09-26 22:21 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-16 21:40 Pacific
(1) DL and (2) Fiddle in Ruby 1.9 before 1.9.3 patchlevel 426, and 2.0 before 2.0.0 patchlevel 195, do not perform taint checking for native functions, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended $SAFE level restrictions.
Affected Packages:
ruby19
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby19 to update your system.
i686:
ruby19-debuginfo-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.i686
rubygem19-io-console-0.3-31.53.amzn1.i686
rubygem19-bigdecimal-1.1.0-31.53.amzn1.i686
ruby19-doc-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.i686
ruby19-devel-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.i686
ruby19-libs-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.i686
rubygem19-json-1.5.5-31.53.amzn1.i686
ruby19-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.i686
noarch:
rubygem19-rake-0.9.2.2-31.53.amzn1.noarch
ruby19-irb-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.noarch
rubygem19-rdoc-3.9.5-31.53.amzn1.noarch
rubygems19-devel-1.8.23-31.53.amzn1.noarch
rubygems19-1.8.23-31.53.amzn1.noarch
rubygem19-minitest-2.5.1-31.53.amzn1.noarch
src:
ruby19-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ruby19-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem19-json-1.5.5-31.53.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-doc-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-libs-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem19-io-console-0.3-31.53.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-debuginfo-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem19-bigdecimal-1.1.0-31.53.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-devel-1.9.3.448-31.53.amzn1.x86_64