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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201710-18">
  <title>Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Ruby, the worst of
    which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ruby</product>
  <announced>2017-10-18</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-10-18</revised>
  <bug>605536</bug>
  <bug>629484</bug>
  <bug>631034</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-lang/ruby" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.2.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The
      elaborate standard library includes an HTTP server (“WEBRick”) and a
      class for XML parsing (“REXML”).
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the
      referenced CVE identifiers for details.
    </p>
    
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of
      Service condition, or obtain sensitive information.
    </p>
    
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Ruby users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/ruby-2.2.8"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2337">
      CVE-2016-2337
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-0898">
      CVE-2017-0898
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10784">
      CVE-2017-10784
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-14033">
      CVE-2017-14033
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-14064">
      CVE-2017-14064
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-17T23:47:57Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-18T00:53:55Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>