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  • Bug#1103790: ruby3.1: CVE-2024-49761

    From Salvatore Bonaccorso@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 21 17:40:01 2025
    Source: ruby3.1
    Version: 3.1.2-8.5
    Severity: important
    Tags: security upstream
    X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

    Hi,

    The following vulnerability was published for ruby3.1.

    CVE-2024-49761[0]:
    | REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a
    | ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits
    | between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;).
    | This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only
    | affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the
    | patch to fix the vulnerability.


    If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
    CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

    For further information see:

    [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-49761
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49761
    [1] https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-2rxp-v6pw-ch6m
    [2] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/10/28/redos-rexml-cve-2024-49761/

    Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

    Regards,
    Salvatore

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