suse-su-2018:2039-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2018-07-23 08:43
Modified
2018-07-23 08:43
Summary
Security update for rubygem-passenger

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for rubygem-passenger
Description of the patch
This update for rubygem-passenger fixes the following issue: The following security vulnerability was addressed: - CVE-2018-12029: Fixed a file system access race condition in the chown command, which allowed for local privilege escalation and affects the Nginx module (bsc#1097663).
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-Module-Containers-12-2018-1373
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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