CVE-2023-36617 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2023-36617: A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of an

Affects 1 Linux release across 1 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2023-36617 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

ruby2.7→ fixed in2.7.4-1+deb11u2urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y ruby2.7
```

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