Summary
It was discovered that RubyGems incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause RubyGems to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04
LTS. (CVE-2023-28755)
It was discovered that RubyGems incorrectly handled decompressed domain
names within a DNS packet. An attacker could use this issue to cause
RubyGems to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2025-24294)
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS | rubygems | 3.3.5-2ubuntu1.1 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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High 7.5
resolv vulnerable to DoS via insufficient DNS domain name length validation
The attack vector is a potential Denial of Service (DoS). The vulnerability is caused by an insufficient check on the length of a decompressed domain name within a DNS packet. An attacker can craft a malicious DNS packet containing a highly compressed domain …
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Medium 5.3
Ruby URI component ReDoS issue
A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component through 0.12.0 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects. The fixed versions are 0.…