(RHSA-2022:6447) Moderate: ruby:2.7 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: ruby (2.7.6). (BZ#2109424)

Security Fix(es):

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

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.