Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting ruby3.0 package, versions <3.0.2-7ubuntu2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.56% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2204-RUBY30-2782706
  • published3 Dec 2021
  • disclosed6 Feb 2022

Introduced: 3 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-41816  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:22.04 ruby3.0 to version 3.0.2-7ubuntu2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby3.0 package and not the ruby3.0 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:22.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

CGI.escape_html in Ruby before 2.7.5 and 3.x before 3.0.3 has an integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via a long string on platforms (such as Windows) where size_t and long have different numbers of bytes. This also affects the CGI gem before 0.3.1 for Ruby.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1