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[SECURITY] [DLA 1359-1] ruby1.8 security update

Package        : ruby1.8
Version        : 1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u6
CVE ID         : CVE-2017-17742 CVE-2018-6914 CVE-2018-8777 CVE-2018-8778
                 CVE-2018-8779 CVE-2018-8780

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the interpreter for the Ruby
language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following issues:

CVE-2017-17742

    Aaron Patterson reported that WEBrick bundled with Ruby was vulnerable to
    an HTTP response splitting vulnerability. It was possible for an attacker
    to inject fake HTTP responses if a script accepted an external input and
    output it without modifications.

CVE-2018-6914

    ooooooo_q discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in the
    Dir.mktmpdir method in the tmpdir library. It made it possible for
    attackers to create arbitrary directories or files via a .. (dot dot) in
    the prefix argument.

CVE-2018-8777

    Eric Wong reported an out-of-memory DoS vulnerability related to a large
    request in WEBrick bundled with Ruby.

CVE-2018-8778

    aerodudrizzt found a buffer under-read vulnerability in the Ruby
    String#unpack method. If a big number was passed with the specifier @,
    the number was treated as a negative value, and an out-of-buffer read
    occurred. Attackers could read data on heaps if an script accepts an
    external input as the argument of String#unpack.

CVE-2018-8779

    ooooooo_q reported that the UNIXServer.open and UNIXSocket.open
    methods of the socket library bundled with Ruby did not check for NUL
    bytes in the path argument. The lack of check made the methods
    vulnerable to unintentional socket creation and unintentional socket
    access.

CVE-2018-8780

    ooooooo_q discovered an unintentional directory traversal in
    some methods in Dir, by the lack of checking for NUL bytes in their
    parameter.

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.8 packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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