CVE-2021-41816

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-27 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby, the worst of which could lead to execution of arbitrary code. Multiple versions are affected.

Progress Chef Infra Server before 15.7 allows a local attacker to exploit a /var/opt/opscode/local-mode-cache/backup world-readable temporary backup path to access sensitive information, resulting in the disclosure of all indexed node data, because OpenSearch credentials are exposed. (The data typically includes credentials for additional systems.) The attacker must wait for an admin to run the "chef-server-ctl reconfigure" command.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6855-01 - Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, denial of service, double free, and spoofing vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6856-01 - Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, denial of service, and spoofing vulnerabilities.

An update for rh-ruby30-ruby is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-41816: ruby: buffer overflow in CGI.escape_html * CVE-2021-41817: ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods * CVE-2021-41819: ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse * CVE-2022-28738: Ruby: Double free in Regexp compilation * CVE-2022-28739: Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion

An update for rh-ruby27-ruby is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-41816: ruby: buffer overflow in CGI.escape_html * CVE-2021-41817: ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods * CVE-2021-41819: ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse * CVE-2022-28739: Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion