Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20186914000
Revision Date:2018-04-03Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-6914 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir.mktmpdir method in the tmpdir library in Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 might allow attackers to create arbitrary directories or files via a .. (dot dot) in the prefix argument.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-6914
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'ruby2.3' package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '2.3.1-2~16.04.9').
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