(RHSA-2021:2229) Moderate: rh-ruby27-ruby security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-ruby27-ruby (2.7.3). (BZ#1947931)

Security Fix(es):

• ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613)

• ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• rh-ruby27-ruby: Resolv::DNS: timeouts if multiple IPv6 name servers are given and address contains leading zero [rhscl-3] (BZ#1950016)

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Software Collections 3.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.