opensuse-su-2020:0036-1
Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse
Published
2020-01-13 15:21
Modified
2020-01-13 15:21
Summary
Security update for rubygem-excon

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for rubygem-excon
Description of the patch
This update for rubygem-excon fixes the following issues: CVE-2019-16779 (boo#1159342): Fix a race condition around persistent connections, where a connection, which was interrupted, would leave data on the socket. Subsequent requests would then read this data, returning content from the previous response.
Patchnames
openSUSE-2020-36
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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