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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-28755: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-28755: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/31/2023
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component through 0.12.0 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects. The fixed versions are 0.12.1, 0.11.1, 0.10.2 and 0.10.0.1.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ruby

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