(RHSA-2019:1148) Important: rh-ruby25-ruby security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-ruby25-ruby (2.5.5). (BZ#1700274)

Security Fix(es):

• rubygems: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-8324)

• rubygems: Delete directory using symlink when decompressing tar (CVE-2019-8320)

• rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in verbose (CVE-2019-8321)

• rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner (CVE-2019-8322)

• rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in API response handling (CVE-2019-8323)

• rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in errors (CVE-2019-8325)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.