Summary
Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.
Security Fix(es):
* rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)
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
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby | 3.0.7-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby-default-gems | 3.0.7-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby-devel | 3.0.7-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby-doc | 3.0.7-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby-libs | 3.0.7-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-bigdecimal | 3.0.0-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-bundler | 2.2.33-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-io-console | 0.5.7-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-irb | 1.3.5-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-json | 2.5.1-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-minitest | 5.14.2-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-power_assert | 1.2.1-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-psych | 3.3.2-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rake | 13.0.3-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rbs | 1.4.0-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rdoc | 6.3.4.1-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rexml | 3.2.5-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rss | 0.2.9-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-test-unit | 3.3.7-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-typeprof | 0.15.2-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygems | 3.2.33-163.el9_5 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygems-devel | 3.2.33-163.el9_5 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.6
REXML ReDoS vulnerability
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the…