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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022-5779-01 Moderate: Ruby Update

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Calendar Grey August 3, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent ruby:2.5 update tackles risks related to denial of service attacks and cookie manipulation issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
An update for the ruby:2.5 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.
Security Fix(es):
* ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817)
* ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux ruby update cookie spoofing

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41817 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41819 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: ruby-2.5.9-110.module+el8.6.0+15956+aa803fc1.src.rpm rubygem-abrt-0.3.0-4.module+el8.1.0+3656+f80bfa1d.src.rpm rubygem-bson-4.3.0-2.module+el8.1.0+3656+f80bfa1d.src.rpm rubygem-bundler-1.16.1-4.module+el8.6.0+14229+2452087f.src.rpm rubygem-mongo-2.5.1-2.module+el8.1.0+3656+f80bfa1d.src.rpm rubygem-mysql2-0.4.10-4.module+el8.1.0+3656+f80bfa1d.src.rpm rubygem-pg-1.0.0-2.module+el8.1.0+3656+f80bfa1d.src.rpm
aarch64: ruby-2.5.9-110.module+el8.6.0+15956+aa803fc1.aarch64.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.5.9-110.module+el8.6.0+15956+aa803fc1.aarch64.rpm ruby-debugsource-2.5.9-110.module+el8.6.0+15956+aa803fc1.aarch64.rpm ruby-devel-2.5.9-110.module+el8.6.0+15956+aa803fc1.aarch64.rpm ruby-libs-2.5.9-110.module+el8.6.0+15956+aa803fc1.aarch64.rpm ruby-libs-debuginfo-2.5.9-110.module+el8.6.0+15956+aa803fc1.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-1.3.4-110.module+el8.6.0+15956+aa803fc1.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo-1.3.4-110.module+el8.6.0+15956+aa803fc1.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-4.3.0-2.module+el8.1.0+3656+f80bfa1d.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-debuginfo-4.3.0-2.module+el8.1.0+3656+f80bfa1d.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-debugsource-4.3.0-2.module+el8.1.0+3656+f80bfa1d.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:5779-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5779
Issue date: 2022-08-01

Topic

An update for the ruby:2.5 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 denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux ruby update cookie spoofing

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2025104 - CVE-2021-41817 ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods

2026757 - CVE-2021-41819 ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse

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