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Medium ALAS2-2023-2084 1 CVE

Moderate: ruby security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 7, 2023 · Updated Jun 12, 2023

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-28756: A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2.

Fixed packages 16

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-debuginfo 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-devel 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-doc 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-irb 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-libs 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-tcltk 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-bigdecimal 0:1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-io-console 0:0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-json 0:1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-minitest 0:4.3.2-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-psych 0:2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-rake 0:0.9.6-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygem-rdoc 0:4.0.0-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygems 0:2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 rubygems-devel 0:2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.4

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2023-28756

    Ruby Time component ReDoS issue

    A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are …

    ruby2.3 ruby ruby2.5 jruby Debian Ubuntu Alpine Wolfi RubyGems

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-28756.html