ALSA-2025:4488 (CVE-2024-39908)

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux – Published: 2025-05-06 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-06 14:32 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
Moderate: ruby:3.1 security update
Details

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

Security Fix(es):

  • rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-39908)
  • rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> (CVE-2024-41123)
  • rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-41946)
  • rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-43398)
  • CGI: ReDoS in CGI::Util#escapeElement (CVE-2025-27220)
  • CGI: Denial of Service in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2025-27219)
  • uri: userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+ (CVE-2025-27221)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References
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  "id": "ALSA-2025:4488",
  "modified": "2025-05-06T14:32:01Z",
  "published": "2025-05-06T00:00:00Z",
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      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-39908"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-41123"
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2298243"
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2302268"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2302272"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2307297"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2349696"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2349699"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2349700"
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  "summary": "Moderate: ruby:3.1 security update",
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}



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