Summary
It was discovered that RubyGems incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause RubyGems to
consume resources, leading to a regular expression denial of service
(ReDoS).
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS | rubygems | 3.3.5-2ubuntu1.2 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.3
URI gem has ReDoS vulnerability
A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser…
References
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-36617