Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-529
Advisory Released Date: 2015-05-27
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-05-27
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
As discussed in an upstream announcement (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/04/13/ruby-openssl-hostname-matching-vulnerability/), Ruby's OpenSSL extension suffers a vulnerability through overly permissive matching of hostnames, which can lead to similar bugs such as CVE-2014-1492.
Affected Packages:
ruby18
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby18 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ruby18-static-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.i686
ruby18-libs-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.i686
ruby18-ri-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.i686
ruby18-debuginfo-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.i686
ruby18-devel-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.i686
ruby18-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.i686
noarch:
ruby18-irb-0.9.5-2.42.4.amzn1.noarch
ruby18-rdoc-1.0.1-2.42.4.amzn1.noarch
src:
ruby18-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ruby18-debuginfo-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.x86_64
ruby18-static-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.x86_64
ruby18-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.x86_64
ruby18-devel-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.x86_64
ruby18-libs-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.x86_64
ruby18-ri-1.8.7.374-2.42.4.amzn1.x86_64