UBUNTU-CVE-2023-36617

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-36617

    Published: 29 Jun 2023Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-36617

    Summary:

    Details: A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755. Version 0.10.3 is also a fixed version.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-36617, https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/06/29/redos-in-uri-CVE-2023-36617/, https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7995/files, https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7995/commits/e6503b9b8b25dc5d6507ff68062127038b082a23, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6219-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36617, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7747-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: jruby

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/jruby?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.5.6-5ubuntu1
    1.5.6-6
    1.5.6-7
    1.5.6-9+deb8u2build0.14.04.1~esm2

    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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