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SUSE-SU-2017:1067-1 Not scored

Security update for ruby2.1

This ruby2.1 update to version 2.1.9 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2016-2339: heap overflow vulnerability in the Fiddle::Function.new'initialize' (bsc#1018808) - CVE-2015-7551: Unsafe tainted string usage in Fiddle and DL (bsc#959495) - CVE-2015-3900: hostname validation does not work when fetching gems or making API requests (bsc#936032) - CVE-2015-1855: Ruby'a OpenSSL extension suffers a vulnerability through overly permissive matching of hostnames (bsc#926974) - CVE-2014-4975: off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes() function (bsc#887877) Bugfixes: - SUSEconnect doesn't handle domain wildcards in no_proxy environment variable properly (bsc#1014863) - Segmentation fault after pack & ioctl & unpack (bsc#909695) - Ruby:HTTP Header injection in 'net/http' (bsc#986630) ChangeLog: - http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v2_1_9/ChangeLog

Exploit probability Not scored
Published April 20, 2017
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 ruby2.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 ruby2.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 ruby2.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 ruby2.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 ruby2.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 ruby2.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 ruby2.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 ruby2.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 ruby2.1

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2017:1067-1

This ruby2.1 update to version 2.1.9 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2016-2339: heap overflow vulnerability in the Fiddle::Function.new'initialize' (bsc#1018808) - CVE-2015-7551: Unsafe tainted string usage in Fiddle and DL (bsc#959495) - CVE-2015-3900: hostname validation does not work when fetching gems or making API requests (bsc#936032) - CVE-2015-1855: Ruby'a OpenSSL extension suffers a vulnerability through overly permissive matching of hostnames (bsc#926974) - CVE-2014-4975: off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes() function (bsc#887877) Bugfixes: - SUSEconnect doesn't handle domain wildcards in no_proxy environment variable properly (bsc#1014863) - Segmentation fault after pack & ioctl & unpack (bsc#909695) - Ruby:HTTP Header injection in 'net/http' (bsc#986630) ChangeLog: - http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v2_1_9/ChangeLog

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05 / REFERENCES

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