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Ubuntu: USN-7091-1 (CVE-2024-49761): Ruby vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-7091-1 (CVE-2024-49761): Ruby vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/28/2024
Created
11/07/2024
Added
11/06/2024
Modified
11/07/2024

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby3-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby3-2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby3-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby3-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby3-2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby3-3

References

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