RHSA-2026:73519 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:2.5 security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · September 30, 2026
Updated · October 31, 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 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):
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resolv: resolv gem: Denial of Service via uncontrolled memory growth from crafted DNS responses (CVE-2026-80212)
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rubygem-mongo: MongoDB Ruby Driver: Data disclosure and denial of service via query-operator injection (CVE-2026-88030)
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.