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rlsa-2026:50778
Vulnerability from osv_rocky
Published
2026-08-27 00:08
Modified
2026-09-03 12:12
Summary
Important: ruby security, bug fix, and enhancement 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):

  • zlib: zlib: Memory corruption via buffer overflow in Zlib::GzipReader (CVE-2026-27820)

  • net-imap: Net::IMAP: Arbitrary IMAP command injection via CRLF sequences in unvalidated input (CVE-2026-42257)

  • ruby/net-imap: ruby: Net::IMAP: Denial of Service via large iteration count in SCRAM authentication (CVE-2026-42256)

  • net-imap: Net::IMAP: Command injection via non-synchronizing literals (CVE-2026-47240)

  • net-imap: Net::IMAP: Arbitrary IMAP command injection due to improper input validation (CVE-2026-47242)

  • net-imap: rubygem-net-imap: Net::IMAP: Denial of Service via malformed command input (CVE-2026-47241)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

  • ruby: Rebase to the latest Ruby 3.3 release [rhel-10.2.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-211300)

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.

Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Credits
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
Red Hat
References
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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Rocky Linux:10",
        "name": "ruby",
        "purl": "pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/ruby?distro=rocky-linux-10\u0026epoch=0"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
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            "yum_repository": "AppStream"
          },
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            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
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              "fixed": "0:3.3.12-14.el10_2"
            }
          ],
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        }
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  ],
  "credits": [
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    },
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    "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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  },
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  "modified": "2026-09-03T12:12:36.667908Z",
  "published": "2026-08-27T00:08:23.329016Z",
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    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
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    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459002"
    },
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    "CVE-2026-27820",
    "CVE-2026-42256",
    "CVE-2026-42257",
    "CVE-2026-47240",
    "CVE-2026-47241",
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  ]
}



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