ALSA-2022:5779

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    ALSA-2022:5779

    Published: 1 Aug 2022Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: ruby:2.5 security update

    Details: 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: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817) * ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819) 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.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5779, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41817, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41819, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2025104, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2026757, https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2022-5779.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ruby

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/ruby

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.5.9-110.module_el8.6.0+3074+4b08f9d4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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