usn-7735-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2025-09-03 12:43
Modified
2026-04-27 14:11
Summary
rubygems vulnerabilities
Details

It was discovered that RubyGems incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause RubyGems to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-28755)

It was discovered that RubyGems incorrectly handled decompressed domain names within a DNS packet. An attacker could use this issue to cause RubyGems to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2025-24294)

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  "modified": "2026-04-27T14:11:45Z",
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}



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