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 (3.3). (Rocky Linux-37446)
Security Fix(es):
* ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280)
* ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281)
* ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search
(CVE-2024-27282)
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 4
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Linux · 8 | ruby | 0:3.3.1-2.module+el8.10.0+1827+16ecb9d2 |
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rubygem-abrt | 0:0.4.0-1.module+el8.10.0+1679+61871737 |
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rubygem-mysql2 | 0:0.5.5-1.module+el8.10.0+1679+61871737 |
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rubygem-pg | 0:1.5.4-1.module+el8.10.0+1679+61871737 |
Vulnerabilities 3
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Critical 9.8
StringIO buffer overread vulnerability
A buffer-overread issue was discovered in StringIO 3.0.1, as distributed in Ruby 3.0.x through 3.0.6 and 3.1.x through 3.1.4. The ungetbyte and ungetc methods on a StringIO can read past the end of a string, and a subsequent call to StringIO.gets may return t…
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Medium 6.6
An issue was discovered in Ruby 3.x through 3.3.0. If attacker-supplied data is provided to the Ruby regex compiler, it…
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Medium 4.5
RDoc RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options
An issue was discovered in RDoc 6.3.3 through 6.6.2, as distributed in Ruby 3.x through 3.3.0. When parsing .rdoc_options (used for configuration in RDoc) as a YAML file, object injection and resultant remote code execution are possible because there are no r…