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Security announcement #1761

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@unak unak commented Mar 28, 2018

Please do not publish before merging release announcement.

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title: "CVE-2018-8779: Unintentional directory traversal by poisoned NUL byte in Dir"
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There is an unintentional directory traversal in some methods in `Dir`.
This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier [CVE-2018-8779](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8779).
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/8779/8780/

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title: "CVE-2018-8780: Unintentional socket creation by poisoned NUL byte in UNIXServer and UNIXSocket"
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There is a unintentional socket creation vulnerability in `UNIXServer.open` method of socket library bundled with Ruby.
And there is also a unintentional socket access vulnerability in `UNIXSocket.open` method.
This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier [CVE-2018-8780](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8780).
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@unak unak merged commit 3b2d8ca into ruby:master Mar 28, 2018
* Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier
* Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier
* Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier
* Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier
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@unak Is this and earlier intentional?
It is not match with japanese one.

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Oh, I didn't take care of the nuance.
Of course, Ruby 2.5 series had only one release 2.5.0, so we don't have to mention about "earlier".
But, about thinking preview versions, "earlier" might have some meaning.
Conclusion: you can choose to say or not to say "earlier" as you like :)

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Thanks for your reply :)

@unak unak deleted the security-2018-03-28 branch July 7, 2021 13:01
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