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Red Hat: RHSA-2021-2229-01 Moderate: HTTP Smuggling & XML Issues

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Significant security enhancement for rh-ruby27-ruby boosts protection within Red Hat Software Collections. Major patches applied.
An update for rh-ruby27-ruby is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

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: rh-ruby27-ruby (2.7.3). (BZ#1947931)
Security Fix(es):
* ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613)
* ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965)
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):
* rh-ruby27-ruby: Resolv::DNS: timeouts if multiple IPv6 name servers are given and address contains leading zero [rhscl-3] (BZ#1950016)
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Software Collections 3.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix Moderate Ruby HTTP smuggling XML vulnerability

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25613 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28965 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_software_collections/3/html/3.7_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-ruby27-ruby-2.7.3-129.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ruby27-ruby-doc-2.7.3-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-bundler-2.1.4-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-did_you_mean-1.4.0-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-irb-1.2.6-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-minitest-5.13.0-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-net-telnet-0.2.0-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-power_assert-1.1.7-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-rake-13.0.1-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-rdoc-6.2.1-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-test-unit-3.3.4-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-xmlrpc-0.3.0-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygems-3.1.6-129.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygems-devel-3.1.6-129.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: rh-ruby27-ruby-2.7.3-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-ruby-debuginfo-2.7.3-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-ruby-devel-2.7.3-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-ruby-libs-2.7.3-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-bigdecimal-2.0.0-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-io-console-0.5.6-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-json-2.3.0-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-openssl-2.1.2-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-psych-3.1.0-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-racc-1.4.16-129.el7.ppc64le.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2229-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2229
Issue date: 2021-06-03

Topic

An update for rh-ruby27-ruby is now available for Red Hat SoftwareCollections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix Moderate Ruby HTTP smuggling XML vulnerability

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1883623 - CVE-2020-25613 ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick

1947526 - CVE-2021-28965 ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML

1950016 - rh-ruby27-ruby: Resolv::DNS: timeouts if multiple IPv6 name servers are given and address contains leading zero [rhscl-3]

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