CVE-2016-7798

La openssl gem para Ruby utiliza el mismo vector de inicialización (IV) en el modo GCM (aes - * - gcm) cuando el IV se establece en versiones anteriores a la clave, lo que facilita que los atacantes dependiendo del contexto eludan el mecanismo de protección del cifrado.

It was discovered that Ruby DL::dlopen incorrectly handled opening libraries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to open libraries with tainted names. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Tony Arcieri, Jeffrey Walton, and Steffan Ullrich discovered that the Ruby OpenSSL extension incorrectly handled hostname wildcard matching. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Christian Hofstaedtler discovered that Ruby Fiddle::Handle incorrectly handled certain crafted strings. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Various other issues were also addressed.