vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-28756: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 31, 2023
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-ruby
Title
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