Ruby security vulnerabilities

Ruby is a cross-platform, object-oriented, dynamically typed programming language from the individual developer, Yukihiro Matsumoto. A security vulnerability exists in Ruby versions prior to 0.12.2, which stems from a ReDoS issue found in the URI component, where the URI parser incorrectly handle...

CVE-2023-36617

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396parser.rb and rfc3986parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of a...

CVE-2023-36617

CVE-2023-36617 is a ReDoS in Ruby’s URI parser prior to 0.12.2, where invalid URLs containing specific characters trigger significantly longer parsing times via rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. This stems from an incomplete fix related to CVE-2023-28755; 0.10.3 is also listed as a fixed v...

CVE-2023-36617

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396parser.rb and rfc3986parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of a...

CVE-2023-36617

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396parser.rb and rfc3986parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of a...

CVE-2023-36617

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396parser.rb and rfc3986parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of a...

PT-2023-8205

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions URI versions prior to 0.12.2 URI version 0.10.3 is a fixed version, implying versions prior to 0.10.3 and between 0.10.3 and 0.12.2 are vulnerable, but for clarity and conciseness, we focus on the range prior to 0.12.2 as the primary affected...

CVE-2023-36617: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396parser.rb and rfc3986parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of a...

ReDoS vulnerability in URI

We have released the uri gem version 0.12.2, 0.10.3 that has a security fix for a ReDoS vulnerability. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-36617. Details A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component through 0.12.1 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs...

AlmaLinux 8 : ruby:2.7 (ALSA-2023:3821)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:3821 advisory. ruby/cgi-gem: HTTP response splitting in CGI CVE-2021-33621 ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in URI CVE-2023-28755 ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in Time CVE-2023-287...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby:2.7 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for the ruby:2.7 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in URI

A flaw was found in the rubygem URI. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters, which causes an increase in execution time parsing strings to URI objects. This may result in a regular expression denial of service ReDoS...

ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in Time

A flaw was found in the Time gem and Time library of Ruby. The Time parser mishandles invalid strings with specific characters and causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. This issue may result in a Regular expression denial of service ReDoS...

ruby/cgi-gem: HTTP response splitting in CGI

A vulnerability was found in Ruby that allows HTTP header injection. A CGI application using the CGI library may insert untrusted input into the HTTP response header. This issue can allow an attacker to insert a newline character to split a header and inject malicious content to deceive clients...

ALSA-2023:3821 Moderate: ruby:2.7 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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. BZ2189465 Security Fixes: ruby/cgi-gem: HTTP response splitting i...

Moderate: ruby:2.7 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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. BZ2189465 Security Fixes: ruby/cgi-gem: HTTP response splitting i...

Medium: yajl

Issue Overview: yajl-ruby is a C binding to the YAJL JSON parsing and generation library. The 1.x branch and the 2.x branch of yajl contain an integer overflow which leads to subsequent heap memory corruption when dealing with large 2GB inputs. The reallocation logic at yajlbuf.cL64 may result in...

RHEL 8 : ruby:2.7 (RHSA-2023:3821)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3821 advisory. Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system...

CentOS 8 : ruby:2.7 (CESA-2023:3821)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2023:3821 advisory. - The cgi gem before 0.1.0.2, 0.2.x before 0.2.2, and 0.3.x before 0.3.5 for Ruby allows HTTP response splitting. This is relevant to applications that...

Denial of Service (DoS)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS in the strbufcat function via a long string, which allows context-dependent attackers. Details Denial of Service DoS describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and...