| Name | CVE-2018-12028 |
| Description | An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows a Passenger-managed malicious application, upon spawning a child process, to report an arbitrary different PID back to Passenger's process manager. If the malicious application then generates an error, it would cause Passenger's process manager to kill said reported arbitrary PID. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| passenger (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 5.0.30-1+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster | 5.0.30-1.1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.0.30-1.2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.0.17+ds-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.0.20+ds-1 | fixed |
| ruby-passenger (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.0.53-1+deb8u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| passenger | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| ruby-passenger | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- passenger <not-affected> (Introduced in 5.3.0 with major refactoring of SpawningKit)
- ruby-passenger <not-affected> (Introduced in 5.3.0 with major refactoring of SpawningKit)
https://blog.phusion.nl/2018/06/12/passenger-5-3-2-various-security-fixes/