Product Errata

RLSA-2024:6785

Moderate: ruby:3.3 security update

Topic

An update is available for ruby, module.rubygem-pg, rubygem-mysql2, module.ruby, rubygem-pg, module.rubygem-mysql2.

This update affects Rocky Linux 9.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

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):

* rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-39908)

* rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> (CVE-2024-41123)

* rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-41946)

* rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-43398)

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.

Issued: 9/30/2024

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 9

Fixes

CVEs

References

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