RHSA-2022:6450 — Security Advisory

An update for the ruby:3.0 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.

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 (3.0.4). (BZ#2109431)

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)

• Ruby: Double free in Regexp compilation (CVE-2022-28738)

• 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.

Bug Fix(es):

• ruby 3.0: User-installed rubygems plugins are not being loaded [RHEL8] (BZ#2110981)