MEDIUM

GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x

Phusion Passenger Denial of Service

Quick fix

GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x — passenger: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update passenger

Details

Phusion Passenger gem before 3.0.21 and 4.0.x before 4.0.5 for Ruby allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevent application start) or gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary "config" file in a directory with a predictable name in `/tmp/` before it is used by the gem.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/passenger

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.0.21

Fixbundle update passenger

RubyGems/passenger

Introduced in: 4.0.1Fixed in: 4.0.5

Fixbundle update passenger

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2119[ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1136[WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2119[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2013-2119.yml[WEB]
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released[WEB]
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released[WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html[WEB]