Fedora 40: ruby 2025-9bef972bb9 critical: DoS and memory exhaustion
fedora
April 23, 2025
Upgrade to Ruby 3.3.8
Summary
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text
files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple,
straight-forward, and extensible.
Update Information:
Upgrade to Ruby 3.3.8. CVE-2025-25186: Fix Net::IMAP vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion Resolves: rhbz#2345556 CVE-2025-27219: Denial of Service in CGI::Cookie.parse Resolves: rhbz#2357516 CVE-2025-27221: userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Thu Apr 10 2025 VÃt Ondruch
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2344680 - CVE-2025-25186 net-imap: Net::IMAP vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2344680
[ 2 ] Bug #2349699 - CVE-2025-27219 CGI: Denial of Service in CGI::Cookie.parse
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2349699
[ 3 ] Bug #2349700 - CVE-2025-27221 uri: userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2349700
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-9bef972bb9' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: ruby
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 3.3.8
Release: 19.fc40
Summary: An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language
Topics Covered
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