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Debian: CVE-2021-41817: ruby2.5, ruby2.7 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-41817: ruby2.5, ruby2.7 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/28/2021
Created
12/29/2021
Added
12/28/2021
Modified
11/04/2022

Description

Date.parse in the date gem through 3.2.0 for Ruby allows ReDoS (regular expression Denial of Service) via a long string. The fixed versions are 3.2.1, 3.1.2, 3.0.2, and 2.0.1.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-ruby2-5
  • debian-upgrade-ruby2-7

References

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