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Amazon Linux 2 : ruby (ALAS-2025-2957)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243435

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of ruby installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.0.648-36. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2957 advisory.

 The attack vector is a potential Denial of Service (DoS). The vulnerability is caused by an insufficient check on the length of a decompressed domain name within a DNS packet.An attacker can craft a malicious DNS packet containing a highly compressed domain name. When the resolv library parses such a packet, the name decompression process consumes a large amount of CPU resources, as the library does not limit the resulting length of the name.This resource consumption can cause the application thread to become unresponsive, resulting in a Denial of Service condition. (CVE-2025-24294)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update ruby' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-2957.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-24294.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 243435

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-2957.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2025

Updated: 8/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24294

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-tcltk, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-rake, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-io-console

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-24294