Infinite loop in Ruby - CVE-2018-1000075

 

Infinite loop in Ruby - CVE-2018-1000075

Published: April 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11649
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000075
CWE-ID: CWE-835
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in ruby gem package tar header due to infinite loop. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.

Affected software

Ruby
Debian Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Opensuse
Fedora
EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance
Dell EMC Data Protection Search
ruby

How to mitigate CVE-2018-1000075

Update to version 2.7.6.

EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance - update to 2.7.1
Dell EMC Data Protection Search - update to 19.6.0
ruby - addressed in versions 2.4.3-87.fc26, 2.4.3-87.fc27

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