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 27
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby | 3.1.5-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby-bundled-gems | 3.1.5-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby-default-gems | 3.1.5-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby-devel | 3.1.5-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby-doc | 3.1.5-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | ruby-libs | 3.1.5-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-bigdecimal | 3.1.1-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-bundler | 2.3.27-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-io-console | 0.5.11-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-irb | 1.4.1-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-json | 2.6.1-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-minitest | 5.15.0-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-mysql2 | 0.5.4-1.module_el9.1.0+8+503f6fbd |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-mysql2-doc | 0.5.4-1.module_el9.1.0+8+503f6fbd |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-pg | 1.3.5-1.module_el9.1.0+8+503f6fbd |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-pg-doc | 1.3.5-1.module_el9.1.0+8+503f6fbd |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-power_assert | 2.0.1-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-psych | 4.0.4-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rake | 13.0.6-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rbs | 2.7.0-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rdoc | 6.4.1.1-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rexml | 3.2.5-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-rss | 0.2.9-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-test-unit | 3.5.3-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygem-typeprof | 0.21.3-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygems | 3.3.27-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rubygems-devel | 3.3.27-145.module_el9.5.0+129+9ba7e8b1 |
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…