INFSA-2025:7539: ruby:2.5 security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:7539

Type: security

Release date: 2025-06-09 06:17:33 UTC

Information about package

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2019-19012

    An integer overflow vulnerability leading to an out-of-bounds read was found in the way Oniguruma handled regular expression quantifiers. A remote attacker could abuse this flaw by providing a malformed regular expression that, when processed by an application linked to Oniguruma, could crash the application, causing a denial of service.

  • CVE-2021-43809

    RubyGems Bundler package could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an argument injection flaw. By using a specially-crafted Gemfile file that contains a dash leading git url parameter, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 7.5 no information
no information 7.3 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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