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ALSA-2024:3546 Not scored

Moderate: ruby:3.1 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. Security Fix(es): * ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281) * ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280) * ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282) For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published June 3, 2024
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-irb
AlmaLinux:8 ruby
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-bundled-gems
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-json
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-2024:3546

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Security Fix(es): * ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281) * ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280) * ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282) For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence