ALAS-2023-2345

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-41817  

A flaw was found in ruby, where the date object was found to be vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) during the parsing of dates. This flaw allows an attacker to hang a ruby application by providing a specially crafted date string. The highest threat to this vulnerability is system availability. (CVE-2021-41817)

ALAS-2023-2345


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2345
Advisory Release Date: 2023-11-09 19:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-11-15 21:09 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in ruby, where the date object was found to be vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) during the parsing of dates. This flaw allows an attacker to hang a ruby application by providing a specially crafted date string. The highest threat to this vulnerability is system availability. (CVE-2021-41817)


Affected Packages:

ruby


Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.aarch64

i686:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.i686
    ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.i686
    ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.i686
    rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.6.i686
    rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.6.i686
    rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.6.i686
    rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.6.i686
    ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.i686
    ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.i686

noarch:
    rubygems-2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.6.noarch
    rubygems-devel-2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.6.noarch
    rubygem-rake-0.9.6-36.amzn2.0.6.noarch
    ruby-irb-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.noarch
    rubygem-rdoc-4.0.0-36.amzn2.0.6.noarch
    ruby-doc-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.noarch
    rubygem-minitest-4.3.2-36.amzn2.0.6.noarch

src:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.src

x86_64:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.6.x86_64