SB2022020413 - Debian update for ruby2.5
Published: February 4, 2022
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28965)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.
2) Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31799)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote unauthenticated attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary commands on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
3) 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).
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.