Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1506
Advisory Release Date: 2021-05-20 21:12 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-05-21 18:51 Pacific
RDoc before version 6.3.1 used to call Kernel#open to open a local file. If a Ruby project has a file whose name starts with "|" and ends with "tags", the command following the pipe character is executed. A malicious Ruby project could exploit it to run an arbitrary command execution against a user who attempts to run the rdoc command. (CVE-2021-31799)
Affected Packages:
ruby24
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby24 to update your system.
i686:
ruby24-devel-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.i686
rubygem24-io-console-0.4.6-2.15.amzn1.i686
ruby24-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.i686
rubygem24-xmlrpc-0.2.1-2.15.amzn1.i686
rubygem24-bigdecimal-1.3.2-2.15.amzn1.i686
ruby24-debuginfo-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.i686
rubygem24-psych-2.2.2-2.15.amzn1.i686
ruby24-libs-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.i686
rubygem24-net-telnet-0.1.1-2.15.amzn1.i686
rubygem24-json-2.0.4-2.15.amzn1.i686
noarch:
rubygem24-rdoc-5.0.1-2.15.amzn1.noarch
ruby24-irb-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.noarch
rubygem24-power_assert-0.4.1-2.15.amzn1.noarch
rubygems24-2.6.14.4-2.15.amzn1.noarch
rubygems24-devel-2.6.14.4-2.15.amzn1.noarch
rubygem24-did_you_mean-1.1.0-2.15.amzn1.noarch
rubygem24-minitest5-5.10.1-2.15.amzn1.noarch
rubygem24-test-unit-3.2.3-2.15.amzn1.noarch
ruby24-doc-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.noarch
src:
ruby24-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ruby24-devel-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
ruby24-debuginfo-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem24-xmlrpc-0.2.1-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
ruby24-libs-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem24-psych-2.2.2-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
ruby24-2.4.10-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem24-json-2.0.4-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem24-net-telnet-0.1.1-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem24-io-console-0.4.6-2.15.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem24-bigdecimal-1.3.2-2.15.amzn1.x86_64