Vulmon
Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASRUBY2.6-2023-002
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-07 05:23 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-25 22:02 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)
CGI::Cookie.parse in Ruby through 2.6.8 mishandles security prefixes in cookie names. This also affects the CGI gem through 0.3.0 for Ruby. (CVE-2021-41819)
Affected Packages:
ruby
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
ruby-2.6.9-129.amzn2.aarch64
ruby-devel-2.6.9-129.amzn2.aarch64
ruby-libs-2.6.9-129.amzn2.aarch64
rubygem-bigdecimal-1.4.1-129.amzn2.aarch64
rubygem-io-console-0.4.7-129.amzn2.aarch64
rubygem-json-2.1.0-129.amzn2.aarch64
rubygem-openssl-2.1.2-129.amzn2.aarch64
rubygem-psych-3.1.0-129.amzn2.aarch64
ruby-debuginfo-2.6.9-129.amzn2.aarch64
i686:
ruby-2.6.9-129.amzn2.i686
ruby-devel-2.6.9-129.amzn2.i686
ruby-libs-2.6.9-129.amzn2.i686
rubygem-bigdecimal-1.4.1-129.amzn2.i686
rubygem-io-console-0.4.7-129.amzn2.i686
rubygem-json-2.1.0-129.amzn2.i686
rubygem-openssl-2.1.2-129.amzn2.i686
rubygem-psych-3.1.0-129.amzn2.i686
ruby-debuginfo-2.6.9-129.amzn2.i686
noarch:
rubygems-3.0.3.1-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygems-devel-3.0.3.1-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-rake-12.3.3-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-irb-1.0.0-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-rdoc-6.1.2.1-129.amzn2.noarch
ruby-doc-2.6.9-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-did_you_mean-1.3.0-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-minitest-5.11.3-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-power_assert-1.1.3-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-net-telnet-0.2.0-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-test-unit-3.2.9-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-xmlrpc-0.3.0-129.amzn2.noarch
rubygem-bundler-1.17.2-129.amzn2.noarch
src:
ruby-2.6.9-129.amzn2.src
x86_64:
ruby-2.6.9-129.amzn2.x86_64
ruby-devel-2.6.9-129.amzn2.x86_64
ruby-libs-2.6.9-129.amzn2.x86_64
rubygem-bigdecimal-1.4.1-129.amzn2.x86_64
rubygem-io-console-0.4.7-129.amzn2.x86_64
rubygem-json-2.1.0-129.amzn2.x86_64
rubygem-openssl-2.1.2-129.amzn2.x86_64
rubygem-psych-3.1.0-129.amzn2.x86_64
ruby-debuginfo-2.6.9-129.amzn2.x86_64