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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-41816: Security patch for ruby (ALASRUBY3.0-2023-003)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-41816: Security patch for ruby (ALASRUBY3.0-2023-003)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/06/2022
Created
09/28/2023
Added
09/28/2023
Modified
09/28/2023

Description

CGI.escape_html in Ruby before 2.7.5 and 3.x before 3.0.3 has an integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via a long string on platforms (such as Windows) where size_t and long have different numbers of bytes. This also affects the CGI gem before 0.3.1 for Ruby.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-default-gems
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-bundler
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-irb
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-power_assert
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-rbs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-rexml
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-rss
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-test-unit
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygem-typeprof
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygems
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-rubygems-devel

References

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