USN-5462-2: Ruby vulnerability

6 June 2022

Ruby could be made to crash or read sensitive information when processing certain input.

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Releases

USN-5462-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Ruby. This update provides
the corresponding CVE-2022-28739 update for ruby2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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