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Medium ALSA-2021:2587 8 CVEs

Moderate: ruby:2.5 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Jun 29, 2021 · Updated Nov 2, 2026

Summary

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: ruby (2.5.9). (BZ#1952626)

Security Fix(es):

* ruby: NUL injection vulnerability of File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch? (CVE-2019-15845)

* ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of WEBrick's Digest authentication (CVE-2019-16201)

* ruby: Code injection via command argument of Shell#test / Shell#[] (CVE-2019-16255)

* rubygem-json: Unsafe object creation vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2020-10663)

* ruby: BasicSocket#read_nonblock method leads to information disclosure (CVE-2020-10933)

* ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613)

* ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965)

* ruby: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick (CVE-2019-16254)

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.

Fixed packages 22

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+2623+08a8ba32
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt-doc 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt-doc 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+2623+08a8ba32
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt-doc 0.3.0-4.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson 4.3.0-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson 4.3.0-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson-doc 4.3.0-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson-doc 4.3.0-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo 2.5.1-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo 2.5.1-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo-doc 2.5.1-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo-doc 2.5.1-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0.4.10-4.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0.4.10-4.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2-doc 0.4.10-4.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2-doc 0.4.10-4.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg 1.0.0-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg 1.0.0-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg-doc 1.0.0-2.module_el8.5.0+2625+ec418553
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg-doc 1.0.0-2.module_el8.5.0+259+8cec6917

Vulnerabilities 8

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1773728
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1789407
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1789556
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1793683
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1827500
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1833291
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1883623
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1947526
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1952626
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1955010
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-2587.html
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-15845
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-16201
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-16254
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-16255
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-10663
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-10933
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-25613
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-28965