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ALSA-2021:2587 Not scored

Moderate: ruby:2.5 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 (2.5.9). (BZ#1952626) Security Fix(es): * ruby: NUL injection vulnerability of File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch? (CVE-2019-15845) * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of WEBrick's Digest authentication (CVE-2019-16201) * ruby: Code injection via command argument of Shell#test / Shell#[] (CVE-2019-16255) * rubygem-json: Unsafe object creation vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2020-10663) * ruby: BasicSocket#read_nonblock method leads to information disclosure (CVE-2020-10933) * ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613) * ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965) * ruby: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick (CVE-2019-16254) 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.

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-2021:2587

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 (2.5.9). (BZ#1952626) Security Fix(es): * ruby: NUL injection vulnerability of File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch? (CVE-2019-15845) * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of WEBrick's Digest authentication (CVE-2019-16201) * ruby: Code injection via command argument of Shell#test / Shell#[] (CVE-2019-16255) * rubygem-json: Unsafe object creation vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2020-10663) * ruby: BasicSocket#read_nonblock method leads to information disclosure (CVE-2020-10933) * ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613) * ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965) * ruby: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick (CVE-2019-16254) 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.

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05 / REFERENCES

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