vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-49761): Ruby vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Oct 28, 2024 | Nov 6, 2024 | Apr 21, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 28, 2024
Added
Nov 6, 2024
Modified
Apr 21, 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)
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libruby2-3ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libruby2-5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libruby2-7ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libruby3-0ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libruby3-2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libruby3-3ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ruby2-3ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ruby2-5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ruby2-7ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ruby3-0ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ruby3-2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ruby3-3

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