RubyGems Redirection Vulnerability

RubyGems is a Ruby package manager from the RubyGems organization, which is used to distribute and manage Ruby packages. RubyGems programs fail to validate hostnames when fetching gem or constructing API requests, allowing remote attackers to submit specially crafted DNS SRV records to redirect...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3900

RubyGems 2.0.x before 2.0.16, 2.2.x before 2.2.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.7 does not validate the hostname when fetching gems or making API requests, which allows remote attackers to redirect requests to arbitrary domains via a crafted DNS SRV record, aka a "DNS hijack attack."...