RHSA-2026:50728 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:3.3 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 5, 2026

Updated · October 17, 2026

Topic

An update for the ruby:3.3 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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):

zlib: zlib: Memory corruption via buffer overflow in Zlib::GzipReader (CVE-2026-27820)
net-imap: Net::IMAP: Arbitrary IMAP command injection via CRLF sequences in unvalidated input (CVE-2026-42257)
ruby/net-imap: ruby: Net::IMAP: Denial of Service via large iteration count in SCRAM authentication (CVE-2026-42256)
net-imap: Net::IMAP: Command injection via non-synchronizing literals (CVE-2026-47240)
net-imap: Net::IMAP: Arbitrary IMAP command injection due to improper input validation (CVE-2026-47242)
net-imap: rubygem-net-imap: Net::IMAP: Denial of Service via malformed command input (CVE-2026-47241)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

ruby:3.3/ruby: Rebase to the latest Ruby 3.3 release [rhel-8] (JIRA:RHEL-170929)

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.