Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-6784-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: ruby:3.3 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:6784-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6784
Issue date: 2024-09-19
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-39908
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Summary:

An update for the ruby:3.3 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 vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description:

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):

* rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-39908)

* rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> (CVE-2024-41123)

* rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-41946)

* rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-43398)

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.

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2024-39908

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2298243
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302268
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302272
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2307297
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-55409