SB2022080157 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for the ruby:2.5 module

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SB2022080157 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for the ruby:2.5 module

Published: August 1, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2022080157
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41817)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing regular expressions on date parsing methods. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


2) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41819)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data in CGI::Cookie.parse. A remote attacker can spoof page content.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References