An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. A crafted gem with a multi-line name is not handled correctly. Therefore, an attacker could inject arbitrary code to the stub line of gemspec, which is eval-ed by code in ensure_loadable_spec during the preinstall check.
References
Link Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972 Third Party Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/328571 Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-06-17T18:59:30

Updated: 2020-08-16T14:06:10

Reserved: 2019-02-13T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2019-8324

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-06-17T19:15:11.843

Modified: 2020-08-24T17:37:01.140


Link: CVE-2019-8324

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