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High RLSA-2026:50773 6 CVEs

Important: ruby4.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Aug 27, 2026 · Updated Aug 27, 2026

Summary

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.

Security Fix(es):

* zlib: zlib: Memory corruption via buffer overflow in Zlib::GzipReader (CVE-2026-27820)

* net-imap: Net::IMAP: Arbitrary IMAP command injection via CRLF sequences in unvalidated input (CVE-2026-42257)

* ruby/net-imap: ruby: Net::IMAP: Denial of Service via large iteration count in SCRAM authentication (CVE-2026-42256)

* net-imap: Net::IMAP: Command injection via non-synchronizing literals (CVE-2026-47240)

* net-imap: Net::IMAP: Arbitrary IMAP command injection due to improper input validation (CVE-2026-47242)

* net-imap: rubygem-net-imap: Net::IMAP: Denial of Service via malformed command input (CVE-2026-47241)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* ruby4.0: Rebase to the latest Ruby 4.0 release [rhel-10.2.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-211310)

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 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 10 ruby4.0 0:4.0.6-36.el10_2

Vulnerabilities 6

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491522
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2468494
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2468500
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459002
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491523
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491519
  • advisory
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50773