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ALSA-2021:2584 Not scored

Moderate: ruby:2.7 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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 (2.7.3). (BZ#1951999) Security Fix(es): * ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613) * ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965) 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. Bug Fix(es): * Resolv::DNS: ruby:2.7/ruby: timeouts if multiple IPv6 name servers are given and address contains leading zero [almalinux-8] (BZ#1952000)

Exploit probability Not scored
Published June 29, 2021
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-abrt
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-abrt-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-bson
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-bson-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mongo
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mongo-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mysql2
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mysql2-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-pg
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-pg-doc

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2021:2584

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 (2.7.3). (BZ#1951999) Security Fix(es): * ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613) * ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965) 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. Bug Fix(es): * Resolv::DNS: ruby:2.7/ruby: timeouts if multiple IPv6 name servers are given and address contains leading zero [almalinux-8] (BZ#1952000)

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence