{"id":"RLSA-2024:4499","summary":"Moderate: ruby security update","details":"Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* rubygem-uri: ReDoS vulnerability - upstream's incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755 (CVE-2023-36617)\n\n* ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280)\n\n* ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281)\n\n* ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282)\n\n* REXML: DoS parsing an XML with many `\u003c`s in an attribute value (CVE-2024-35176)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-03-11T06:29:40.288900Z","published":"2024-07-15T12:17:49.133583Z","upstream":["CVE-2023-36617","CVE-2024-27280","CVE-2024-27281","CVE-2024-27282","CVE-2024-35176"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:4499"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218614"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270749"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270750"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2276810"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280894"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"ruby","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/ruby?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:2.5.9-112.module+el8.10.0+1839+f1f156ae"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:4499.json"}},{"package":{"name":"rubygem-abrt","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/rubygem-abrt?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:0.3.0-4.module+el8.5.0+738+032c9c02"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:4499.json"}},{"package":{"name":"rubygem-bson","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/rubygem-bson?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:4.3.0-2.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:4499.json"}},{"package":{"name":"rubygem-bundler","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/rubygem-bundler?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:1.16.1-4.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:4499.json"}},{"package":{"name":"rubygem-mongo","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/rubygem-mongo?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:2.5.1-2.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:4499.json"}},{"package":{"name":"rubygem-mysql2","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/rubygem-mysql2?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:4499.json"}},{"package":{"name":"rubygem-pg","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/rubygem-pg?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:1.0.0-3.module+el8.9.0+1536+5f79634e"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:4499.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}