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Medium ALSA-2022:6447 3 CVEs

Moderate: ruby:2.7 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Sep 13, 2022 · Updated Nov 5, 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 (2.7.6). (BZ#2109424)

Security Fix(es):

* ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817)
* ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819)
* Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739)

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 40

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 ruby 2.7.6-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 ruby-default-gems 2.7.6-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 ruby-devel 2.7.6-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 ruby-doc 2.7.6-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 ruby-libs 2.7.6-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0.4.0-1.module_el8.5.0+2595+0c654ebc
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-abrt-doc 0.4.0-1.module_el8.5.0+2595+0c654ebc
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bigdecimal 2.0.0-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson 4.8.1-1.module_el8.5.0+117+35d1289b
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson 4.8.1-1.module_el8.6.0+3167+957ef55e
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson 4.8.1-1.module_el8.4.0+2399+4e3a532a
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson 4.8.1-1.module_el8.3.0+6147+d0dfc1e4
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bson-doc 4.8.1-1.module_el8.3.0+6147+d0dfc1e4
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-bundler 2.2.24-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-io-console 0.5.6-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-irb 1.2.6-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-json 2.3.0-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-minitest 5.13.0-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo 2.11.3-1.module_el8.3.0+6147+d0dfc1e4
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mongo-doc 2.11.3-1.module_el8.3.0+6147+d0dfc1e4
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0.5.3-1.module_el8.4.0+2399+4e3a532a
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0.5.3-1.module_el8.6.0+3167+957ef55e
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0.5.3-1.module_el8.5.0+2595+0c654ebc
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0.5.3-1.module_el8.5.0+117+35d1289b
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-mysql2-doc 0.5.3-1.module_el8.5.0+2595+0c654ebc
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-net-telnet 0.2.0-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-openssl 2.1.3-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg 1.2.3-1.module_el8.5.0+2595+0c654ebc
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg 1.2.3-1.module_el8.5.0+117+35d1289b
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg 1.2.3-1.module_el8.4.0+2399+4e3a532a
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg 1.2.3-1.module_el8.6.0+3167+957ef55e
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-pg-doc 1.2.3-1.module_el8.5.0+2595+0c654ebc
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-power_assert 1.1.7-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-psych 3.1.0-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-rake 13.0.1-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-rdoc 6.2.1.1-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-test-unit 3.3.4-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygem-xmlrpc 0.3.0-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygems 3.1.6-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987
AlmaLinux · 8 rubygems-devel 3.1.6-138.module_el8.6.0+3263+904da987

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41817
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41819
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28739
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2025104
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2026757
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2075687
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2109424
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2022-6447.html