CVE-2015-1855

NameCVE-2015-1855
Descriptionverify_certificate_identity in the OpenSSL extension in Ruby before 2.0.0 patchlevel 645, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not properly validate hostnames, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via vectors related to (1) multiple wildcards, (1) wildcards in IDNA names, (3) case sensitivity, and (4) non-ASCII characters.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-224-1, DLA-235-1, DSA-3245-1, DSA-3246-1, DSA-3247-1

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ruby1.8sourcesqueeze1.8.7.302-2squeeze4DLA-224-1
ruby1.8sourcewheezy1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u3DSA-3245-1
ruby1.8source(unstable)(unfixed)
ruby1.9.1sourcesqueeze1.9.2.0-2+deb6u4DLA-235-1
ruby1.9.1sourcewheezy1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u5DSA-3246-1
ruby1.9.1source(unstable)(unfixed)
ruby2.0source(unstable)(unfixed)
ruby2.1sourcejessie2.1.5-2+deb8u1DSA-3247-1
ruby2.1source(unstable)2.1.5-3
ruby2.2source(unstable)2.2.2-1

Notes

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9644
https://github.com/ruby/openssl/commit/e9a7bcb8bf2902f907c148a00bbcf21d3fa79596

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