[DRE-maint] Bug#944850: ruby-json-jwt: CVE-2019-18848

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: ruby-json-jwt
Version: 1.9.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for ruby-json-jwt.

CVE-2019-18848[0]:
| The json-jwt gem before 1.11.0 for Ruby lacks an element count during
| the splitting of a JWE string.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-18848
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18848
[1] https://github.com/nov/json-jwt/commit/ada16e772906efdd035e3df49cb2ae372f0f948a

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore