ALSA-2024:4499

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    ALSA-2024:4499

    Published: 11 Jul 2024Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: ruby 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): * 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.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ruby

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/ruby

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.5.9-112.module_el8.10.0+3871+342e2c2f

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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