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 7
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Linux · 8 | ruby | 0:2.5.9-113.module+el8.10.0+1901+b9cac91a |
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rubygem-abrt | 0:0.3.0-4.module+el8.5.0+738+032c9c02 |
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rubygem-bson | 0:4.3.0-2.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e |
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rubygem-bundler | 0:1.16.1-4.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e |
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rubygem-mongo | 0:2.5.1-2.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e |
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rubygem-mysql2 | 0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e |
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rubygem-pg | 0:1.0.0-3.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e |
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…
References
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report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322153