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Red Hat Enterprise 8 RHSA-2021-2584 Moderate: Ruby 2.7 Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An update for Ruby 2.7 is now available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, tackling some moderate security vulnerabilities and resolving several bugs.
An update for the ruby:2.7 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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: ruby (2.7.3). (BZ#1951999)
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):
* Resolv::DNS: ruby:2.7/ruby: timeouts if multiple IPv6 name servers are given and address contains leading zero [rhel-8] (BZ#1952000)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix Red Hat Enterprise HTTP request smuggling XML vulnerability ruby module

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: ruby-2.7.3-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.src.rpm rubygem-abrt-0.4.0-1.module+el8.3.0+7192+4e3a532a.src.rpm rubygem-bson-4.8.1-1.module+el8.3.0+7192+4e3a532a.src.rpm rubygem-mongo-2.11.3-1.module+el8.3.0+7192+4e3a532a.src.rpm rubygem-mysql2-0.5.3-1.module+el8.3.0+7192+4e3a532a.src.rpm rubygem-pg-1.2.3-1.module+el8.3.0+7192+4e3a532a.src.rpm
aarch64: ruby-2.7.3-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.aarch64.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.7.3-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.aarch64.rpm ruby-debugsource-2.7.3-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.aarch64.rpm ruby-devel-2.7.3-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.aarch64.rpm ruby-libs-2.7.3-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.aarch64.rpm ruby-libs-debuginfo-2.7.3-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-2.0.0-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo-2.0.0-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-4.8.1-1.module+el8.3.0+7192+4e3a532a.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-debuginfo-4.8.1-1.module+el8.3.0+7192+4e3a532a.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-debugsource-4.8.1-1.module+el8.3.0+7192+4e3a532a.aarch64.rpm rubygem-io-console-0.5.6-136.module+el8.4.0+10728+4c884998.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2584-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2584
Issue date: 2021-06-29

Topic

An update for the ruby:2.7 module is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 8.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 moderate bug fix Red Hat Enterprise HTTP request smuggling XML vulnerability ruby module

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, 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

1951999 - Rebase to the latest Ruby 2.7 point release [rhel-8] [rhel-8.4.0.z]

1952000 - Resolv::DNS: ruby:2.7/ruby: timeouts if multiple IPv6 name servers are given and address contains leading zero [rhel-8] [rhel-8.4.0.z]

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