Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: ruby / ruby-debuginfo / ruby-debugsource / ruby-default-gems / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2022_6450)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 357979

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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-2022_6450 advisory.

* ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817)

* ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819)

* Ruby: Double free in Regexp compilation (CVE-2022-28738)

* Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739)

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-2022_6450.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 357979

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_8_crlsa-2022_6450.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28738

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41817, CVE-2021-41819, CVE-2022-28738, CVE-2022-28739

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