FlawAtlas
Search the atlas
ALSA-2022:6450 Not scored

Moderate: ruby:3.0 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 (3.0.4). (BZ#2109431) 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: Double free in Regexp compilation (CVE-2022-28738) * 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. Bug Fix(es): * ruby 3.0: User-installed rubygems plugins are not being loaded [AlmaLinux8] (BZ#2110981)

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 rubygem-irb
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-json
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-bundler
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-io-console
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-minitest
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mysql2
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mysql2-doc
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-rbs
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rdoc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rexml
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rss
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-test-unit
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-typeprof
AlmaLinux:8 rubygems
AlmaLinux:8 rubygems-devel

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2022:6450

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 (3.0.4). (BZ#2109431) 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: Double free in Regexp compilation (CVE-2022-28738) * 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. Bug Fix(es): * ruby 3.0: User-installed rubygems plugins are not being loaded [AlmaLinux8] (BZ#2110981)

View original source

05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence