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ALSA-2022:6447 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 (2.7.6). (BZ#2109424) Security Fix(es): * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817) * ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819) * Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739) 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 September 13, 2022
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 ruby
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-default-gems
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-devel
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-doc
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-libs
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-abrt
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-abrt-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-bigdecimal
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-bson
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-bson-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-bundler
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-io-console
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-irb
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-json
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-minitest
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mongo
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mongo-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mysql2
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mysql2-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-net-telnet
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-openssl
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-pg
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-pg-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-power_assert
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-psych
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rake
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rdoc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-test-unit
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-xmlrpc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygems
AlmaLinux:8 rubygems-devel

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2022:6447

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 (2.7.6). (BZ#2109424) Security Fix(es): * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817) * ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819) * Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739) 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

Further evidence