RHEL 7 : ruby (RHSA-2018:3738)
High Nessus Plugin ID 119294
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.
Security Fix(es) :
* ruby: OpenSSL::X509::Name equality check does not work correctly (CVE-2018-16395)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution
Update the affected packages.