RHSA-2022:5338 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:2.6 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · July 1, 2022
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for the ruby:2.6 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: ruby (2.6.10). (BZ#2089374)
Security Fix(es):
- Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739)
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.