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Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: ruby / ruby-debuginfo / ruby-debugsource / ruby-devel / ruby-doc / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2024_4499)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 356237

Synopsis

The Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-2024_4499 advisory.

 * rubygem-uri: ReDoS vulnerability - upstream's incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755 (CVE-2023-36617)

 * ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280)

 * ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281)

 * ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282)

 * REXML: DoS parsing an XML with many `<`s in an attribute value (CVE-2024-35176)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages based on the guidance in CIQ advisory crlsa-2024_4499.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4499

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218614

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270749

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270750

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2276810

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280894

https://errata.build.resf.org/RLSA-2024:4499

http://www.nessus.org/u?9597d134

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1a07658

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 356237

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_8_crlsa-2024_4499.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.83

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36617

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27280

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/OS/extended-third-party

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36617, CVE-2024-27280, CVE-2024-27281, CVE-2024-27282, CVE-2024-35176