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Bug 1547420 - (CVE-2018-1000075) CVE-2018-1000075 rubygems: Infinite loop vulnerability due to negative size in tar header causes Denial of Service
CVE-2018-1000075 rubygems: Infinite loop vulnerability due to negative size i...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20180215,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1547431 1547432 1547433 1547442 1549913 1549914 1554493 1554494
Blocks: 1547429
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Reported: 2018-02-21 05:29 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2018-06-29 18:33 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: rubygems 2.7.6
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Description Adam Mariš 2018-02-21 05:29:15 EST
Negative size in ruby gem package tar header can cause and infinite loop.

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/92e98bf8f810bd812f919120d4832df51bc25d83

External References:

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/02/17/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-rubygems/
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-02-21 05:35:42 EST
Created rubygems tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1547431]
Comment 9 Andrej Nemec 2018-05-14 09:58:56 EDT
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of rubygems as shipped with Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

This issue affects the versions of rubygems as shipped with Red Hat Satellite version 6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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