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Ubuntu: USN-5235-1 (CVE-2021-41816): Ruby vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5235-1 (CVE-2021-41816): Ruby vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/18/2022
Created
01/21/2022
Added
01/19/2022
Modified
05/01/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-7

References

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