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Medium ALAS2-2022-1853 1 CVE

Moderate: ruby security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 30, 2022 · Updated Oct 10, 2022

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-28739: A buffer overrun vulnerability was found in Ruby. The issue occurs in a conversion algorithm from a String to a Float that causes process termination due to a segmentation fault, but under limited circumstances. This flaw may cause an illegal memory read.

Fixed packages 16

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-debuginfo 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-devel 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-doc 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-irb 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-libs 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-tcltk 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-bigdecimal 0:1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-io-console 0:0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-json 0:1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-minitest 0:4.3.2-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-psych 0:2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-rake 0:0.9.6-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-rdoc 0:4.0.0-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygems 0:2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygems-devel 0:2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-28739.html