CVE-2024-35176 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2024-35176: REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this

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

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2024-35176 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+deb11u3urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y ruby2.7
```

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