Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-49761: ELSA-2024-10834: ruby:3.1 security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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.
A flaw was found in the REXML XML toolkit for Ruby. Parsing XML data containing a large number of digits between `&# `and `x...;` in a hex numeric character reference (`&#x...;`) can trigger a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) condition, leading to a denial of service.