RHSA-2020:2288 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · May 27, 2020

Updated · November 2, 2026

Topic

An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

Security Fix(es):

  • ruby: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick (CVE-2017-17742)

  • ruby: Buffer under-read in String#unpack (CVE-2018-8778)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:2288 — Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update | PulseLinux