USN-4175-1: Nokogiri vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.10
• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• ruby-nokogiri - HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser for Ruby

Details

It was discovered that Nokogiri incorrectly handled inputs. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary OS commands.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10

• ruby-nokogiri - 1.10.3+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 19.04

• ruby-nokogiri - 1.10.0+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• ruby-nokogiri - 1.8.2-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• ruby-nokogiri - 1.6.7.2-3ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2019-5477