Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-247
Advisory Release Date: 2013-11-22 21:42 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-16 21:54 Pacific
Severity:
Critical
Issue Overview:
Heap-based buffer overflow in Ruby 1.8, 1.9 before 1.9.3-p484, 2.0 before 2.0.0-p353, 2.1 before 2.1.0 preview2, and trunk before revision 43780 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a string that is converted to a floating point value, as demonstrated using (1) the to_f method or (2) JSON.parse.
Affected Packages:
ruby19
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby19 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
rubygem19-json-1.5.5-31.55.amzn1.i686
rubygem19-io-console-0.3-31.55.amzn1.i686
ruby19-libs-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.i686
rubygem19-bigdecimal-1.1.0-31.55.amzn1.i686
ruby19-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.i686
ruby19-debuginfo-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.i686
ruby19-doc-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.i686
ruby19-devel-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.i686
noarch:
ruby19-irb-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.noarch
rubygem19-minitest-2.5.1-31.55.amzn1.noarch
rubygem19-rdoc-3.9.5-31.55.amzn1.noarch
rubygems19-1.8.23-31.55.amzn1.noarch
rubygems19-devel-1.8.23-31.55.amzn1.noarch
rubygem19-rake-0.9.2.2-31.55.amzn1.noarch
src:
ruby19-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ruby19-doc-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem19-bigdecimal-1.1.0-31.55.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-devel-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-debuginfo-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-libs-1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem19-io-console-0.3-31.55.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem19-json-1.5.5-31.55.amzn1.x86_64