Advisories » MGASA-2023-0291

Updated ruby-RedCloth packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 20 Oct 2023
Modification date: 20 Oct 2023
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8 , 9
CVE: CVE-2023-31606

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered
in the sanitize_html function of redcloth gem v4.0.0. This
vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS)
via supplying a crafted payload. (CVE-2023-31606)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32284
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6358-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-31606

SRPMS

9/core

• ruby-RedCloth-4.3.2-7.1.mga9

8/core

• ruby-RedCloth-4.3.2-5.1.mga8