ADVISORIES

• CVE-2007-0469 (NVD)
• GHSA-95vx-q4c2-64gr
• OSVDB-33561

GEM

rubygems-update

LIBRARY

RubyGems

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 9.3 (High)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 0.9.1

DESCRIPTION

The extract_files function in installer.rb in RubyGems before 0.9.1 does not check whether files exist before overwriting them, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code via crafted GEM packages.