ALAS2-2023-2084

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-28756  

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2. (CVE-2023-28756)

ALAS2-2023-2084


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2084
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-07 23:52 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-12 23:09 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2. (CVE-2023-28756)


Affected Packages:

ruby


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

New Packages:
aarch64:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
    ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
    ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
    rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
    rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
    rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
    rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
    ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
    ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.aarch64

i686:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.i686
    ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.i686
    ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.i686
    rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.4.i686
    rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.4.i686
    rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.4.i686
    rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.4.i686
    ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.i686
    ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.i686

noarch:
    rubygems-2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.4.noarch
    rubygems-devel-2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.4.noarch
    rubygem-rake-0.9.6-36.amzn2.0.4.noarch
    ruby-irb-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.noarch
    rubygem-rdoc-4.0.0-36.amzn2.0.4.noarch
    ruby-doc-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.noarch
    rubygem-minitest-4.3.2-36.amzn2.0.4.noarch

src:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.src

x86_64:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
    ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
    ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
    rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
    rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
    rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
    rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
    ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
    ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.4.x86_64