Moderate: ruby:3.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Summary
ALSA-2022:6450: Moderate: ruby:3.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update. Affects ruby versions < 3.0.4-141.module_el8.6.0+3263+41cde0c0. Fixed in 3.0.4-141.module_el8.6.0+3263+41cde0c0. How to fix ↓
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Background
Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. The vulnerability affects the following packages: ruby, ruby-default-gems, ruby-devel, ruby-doc, ruby-libs, rubygem-abrt, rubygem-abrt-doc, rubygem-bigdecimal, rubygem-bundler, rubygem-io-console, rubygem-irb, rubygem-json, rubygem-minitest, rubygem-mysql2, rubygem-mysql2-doc, rubygem-pg, rubygem-pg-doc, rubygem-power_assert, rubygem-psych, rubygem-rake, rubygem-rbs, rubygem-rdoc, rubygem-rexml, rubygem-rss, rubygem-test-unit, rubygem-typeprof, rubygems, rubygems-devel.
Vulnerability Detail
The vulnerability includes the following security issues:
- Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817)
- Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819)
- Double free in Regexp compilation (CVE-2022-28738)
- Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739)
These vulnerabilities can lead to various consequences, including denial of service, spoofing, and memory corruption.
How To Fix
Minimum fixed version
3.0.4-141.module_el8.6.0+3263+41cde0c0
This is the first release that contains the fix.
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Conclusion
The ruby:3.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update includes fixes for several vulnerabilities that can lead to denial of service, spoofing, and memory corruption. It is recommended to upgrade the affected packages to the latest version (ruby 3.0.4) to mitigate these vulnerabilities. For more information and support, please contact DevNack.com.
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FAQ
These vulnerabilities can lead to denial of service, spoofing, and memory corruption.
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