USN-7747-1

It was discovered that RubyGems incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause RubyGems to consume resources, leading to a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / rubygems

Package

Name: rubygems
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/rubygems@3.3.5-2ubuntu1.2?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.3.5-2ubuntu1.2

Affected versions

3.*

3.2.5-2

3.2.27-2

3.2.27-3

3.3.5-2

3.3.5-2ubuntu1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.3.5-2ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "bundler"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.3.5-2ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "ruby-bundler"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "3.3.5-2ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "ruby-rubygems"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2023-36617"
        }
    ]
}