Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:4499-01 (ruby)

An update for ruby 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.

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):

* rubygem-uri: ReDoS vulnerability - upstream's incomplete fix for
CVE-2023-28755 (CVE-2023-36617)

* ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280)

* ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281)

* ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search
(CVE-2024-27282)

* REXML: DoS parsing an XML with many `<`s in an attribute value
(CVE-2024-35176)

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.

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