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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-49761: ruby security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-49761: ruby security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/28/2024
Created
02/12/2025
Added
02/11/2025
Modified
02/19/2025

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-ruby
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-ruby-help
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-ruby-irb

References

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