RHSA-2022:5779 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:2.5 security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 1, 2022

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for the ruby:2.5 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.

Security Fix(es):

  • ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817)

  • ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819)

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-2022:5779 — Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:2.5 security update | PulseLinux