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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4283-1 ruby-json-jwt -- security update

Date Reported:

31 Aug 2018

Affected Packages:

ruby-json-jwt

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1000539.

More information:

It was discovered that ruby-json-jwt, a Ruby implementation of JSON web tokens performed insufficient validation of GCM auth tags.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-json-jwt packages.

For the detailed security status of ruby-json-jwt please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ruby-json-jwt