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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1558-1 ruby2.1 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

28 Oct 2018

Affected Packages:

ruby2.1

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-16395, CVE-2018-16396.

More information:

• CVE-2018-16395

  Fix for OpenSSL::X509::Name equality check.

• CVE-2018-16396

  Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.5-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby2.1 packages.

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