SB2022091330 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for the ruby:2.7 module
Published: September 13, 2022
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41817)
CWE-ID: CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
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)
CWE-ID: CWE-451 - User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information (Clickjacking, spoofing)
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
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.
3) Type conversion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28739)
CWE-ID: CWE-704 - Type conversion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to a type conversion error in some convertion methods like Kernel#Float</code> and <code>String#to_f. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the affected application, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code in the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.