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 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Linux · 9 | rubygem-mysql2 | 0:0.5.4-1.module+el9.6.0+31865+0893c253 |
| Rocky Linux · 9 | rubygem-pg | 0:1.3.5-1.module+el9.6.0+31865+0893c253 |
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