RHSA-2024:4499 — Security Advisory

An update for ruby 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.

Security Fix(es):

• rubygem-uri: ReDoS vulnerability - upstream's incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755 (CVE-2023-36617)

• ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280)

• ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281)

• ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282)

• REXML: DoS parsing an XML with many <s in an attribute value (CVE-2024-35176)

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.