Debian DLA-1399-1 : ruby-passenger security update

Two flaws were discovered in ruby-passenger for Ruby Rails and Rack support that allowed attackers to spoof HTTP headers or exploit a race condition which made privilege escalation under certain conditions possible. CVE-2015-7519 Remote attackers could spoof headers passed to applications by usin...

CVE-2018-12029: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

A race condition in the nginx module in Phusion Passenger 3.x through 5.x before 5.3.2 allows local escalation of privileges when a non-standard passengerinstanceregistrydir with insufficiently strict permissions is configured. Replacing a file with a symlink after the file was created, but befor...