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Medium RLSA-2021:2587 8 CVEs

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

Published Jun 29, 2021 · Updated Feb 4, 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 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 ruby 0:2.5.9-107.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0:0.3.0-4.module+el8.5.0+738+032c9c02
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0:0.3.0-4.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-abrt 0:0.3.0-4.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-bson 0:4.3.0-2.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-bson 0:4.3.0-2.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-bundler 0:1.16.1-3.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-bundler 0:1.16.1-3.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mongo 0:2.5.1-2.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mongo 0:2.5.1-2.module+el8.4.0+349+3470f258
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.5.0+739+43897a5e
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-mysql2 0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-pg 0:1.0.0-2.module+el8.4.0+592+03ff458a
Rocky Linux · 8 rubygem-pg 0:1.0.0-2.module+el8.3.0+167+5c390590

Vulnerabilities 8

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1773728
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1789407
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1789556
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1793683
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1827500
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1833291
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883623
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947526
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952626
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1955010