RHEL 7 : ruby (RHSA-2018:0378)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0378 advisory. - ruby: Buffer underrun vulnerability in Kernel.sprintf CVE-2017-0898 - rubygems: Escape sequence in the summary field of gemspec...

CVE-2017-14064

Ruby through 2.2.7, 2.3.x through 2.3.4, and 2.4.x through 2.4.1 can expose arbitrary memory during a JSON.generate call. The issues lies in using strdup in ext/json/ext/generator/generator.c, which will stop after encountering a '\0' byte, returning a pointer to a string of length zero, which is...