SB2024012406 - Gentoo update for Ruby
Published: January 24, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 11 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-25613)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to preform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
2) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31810)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists within Net::FTP in Ruby when processing PASV responses. A remote attacker can trick the victim to connect to a malicious FTP server and trick Net::FTP into connecting back to a given IP address and port. This potentially makes curl extract information about services that are otherwise private and not disclosed (e.g., the attacker can conduct port scans and service banner extractions).
3) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-32066)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists in Net::IMAP in Ruby, due to the gem does not raise an exception when StartTLS fails with an an unknown response. A remote attacker can perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack.
4) HTTP response splitting (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33621)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP splitting attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to software does not corrector process CRLF character sequences when handling cookies. A remote attacker can send specially crafted request containing CRLF sequence and make the application to send a split HTTP response.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker perform cache poisoning attack.
5) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41816)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in CGI.escape_html. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
6) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41817)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing regular expressions on date parsing methods. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
7) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41819)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data in CGI::Cookie.parse. A remote attacker can spoof page content.
8) Double Free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28738)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in Regexp compilation process in Ruby. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a double free error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
9) Type conversion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28739)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to a type conversion error in some convertion methods like Kernel#Float</code> and <code>String#to_f. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the affected application, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code in the system.
10) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28755)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing URLs. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted URL to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
11) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28756)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing strings that have specific characters. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.