Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202401-27

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby, the worst of which could lead to execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

dev-lang/ruby on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.5.9
< 2.6.10
< 2.7.8
< 3.0.6
< 3.1.4
< 3.2.2
Unaffected versions >= 3.1.4
>= 3.2.2

Background

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It comes bundled with a HTTP server ("WEBrick").

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ruby users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --depclean ruby:2.5 ruby:2.6 ruby:2.7 ruby:3.0
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-3.1.4:3.1"
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-3.2.2:3.2"
 

References

Release date
January 24, 2024

Latest revision
January 24, 2024: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
local and remote

Bugzilla entries