CVE-2016-2339

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3365-1

Posted Jul 25, 2017

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3365-1 - It was discovered that Ruby DL::dlopen incorrectly handled opening libraries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to open libraries with tainted names. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Tony Arcieri, Jeffrey Walton, and Steffan Ullrich discovered that the Ruby OpenSSL extension incorrectly handled hostname wildcard matching. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Christian Hofstaedtler discovered that Ruby Fiddle::Handle incorrectly handled certain crafted strings. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary, ruby

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2009-5147, CVE-2015-1855, CVE-2015-7551, CVE-2015-9096, CVE-2016-2337, CVE-2016-2339, CVE-2016-7798

SHA-256 | d9c893a22d5c169a8dba5385ae2f48c95bb57c3652df1066df59f1b32a5c6be2

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