SB2024042514 - Fedora 39 update for ruby
Published: April 25, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-36617)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when parsing URL. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted URL to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU74004 (CVE-2023-28755).
2) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28755)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing URLs. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted URL to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27281)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing .rdoc_options as a YAML file. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
4) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27280)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the "ungetbyte" and "ungetc" methods. A remote attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.
5) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27282)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in Regex search. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted string to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of heap memory on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.