Moderate: rh-ruby27-ruby security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for rh-ruby27-ruby is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-ruby27-ruby (2.7.8). (BZ#2149267)

Security Fix(es):

• 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-2023-28756)

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

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2149267 - rh-ruby27-ruby: Rebase to the latest Ruby 2.7 release [rhscl-3]
• BZ - 2149706 - CVE-2021-33621 ruby/cgi-gem: HTTP response splitting in CGI
• BZ - 2184059 - CVE-2023-28755 ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in URI
• BZ - 2184061 - CVE-2023-28756 ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in Time

CVEs

• CVE-2021-33621
• CVE-2023-28755
• CVE-2023-28756

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate