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Red Hat RHSA-2022-6856-01 Moderate: rh-ruby27-ruby Buffer Overrun

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued a significant security notice for rh-ruby27-ruby, tackling several vulnerabilities along with necessary bug corrections.
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 (2.7.6). (BZ#2128631)
Security Fix(es):
* ruby: buffer overflow in CGI.escape_html (CVE-2021-41816)
* 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)
* Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739)
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 red hat bug fix buffer overrun security fix moderate severity ruby update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41816 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41817 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41819 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28739 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-ruby27-ruby-2.7.6-131.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ruby27-ruby-doc-2.7.6-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-bundler-2.2.24-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-did_you_mean-1.4.0-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-irb-1.2.6-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-minitest-5.13.0-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-net-telnet-0.2.0-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-power_assert-1.1.7-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-rake-13.0.1-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-rdoc-6.2.1.1-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-test-unit-3.3.4-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-xmlrpc-0.3.0-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygems-3.1.6-131.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygems-devel-3.1.6-131.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: rh-ruby27-ruby-2.7.6-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-ruby-debuginfo-2.7.6-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-ruby-devel-2.7.6-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-ruby-libs-2.7.6-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-bigdecimal-2.0.0-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-io-console-0.5.6-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-json-2.3.0-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-openssl-2.1.3-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-psych-3.1.0-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm rh-ruby27-rubygem-racc-1.4.16-131.el7.ppc64le.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6856-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6856
Issue date: 2022-10-11

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 buffer overrun security fix moderate severity ruby update

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 Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

2026752 - CVE-2021-41816 ruby: buffer overflow in CGI.escape_html

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

2075687 - CVE-2022-28739 Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion

2128631 - rh-ruby27-ruby: Rebase to the latest Ruby 2.7 release [rhscl-3] [rhscl-3.8.z]

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