RHSA-2023:7025 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:2.5 security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 15, 2023
Updated · November 2, 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/cgi-gem: HTTP response splitting in CGI (CVE-2021-33621)
-
ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739)
-
ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in URI (CVE-2023-28755)
-
ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in Time (CVE-2023-28756)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.