Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-921
Advisory Release Date: 2025-03-26 20:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-04-01 11:34 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
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 vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs. (CVE-2024-35176)
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as `<`, `0` and `%>`. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you many be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid parsing untrusted XML strings. (CVE-2024-39908)
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities. (CVE-2024-41123)
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability. (CVE-2024-41946)
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many deep elements that have same local name attributes. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with tree parser API like REXML::Document.new, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. If you use other parser APIs such as stream parser API and SAX2 parser API, this vulnerability is not affected. The REXML gem 3.3.6 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability. (CVE-2024-43398)
Affected Packages:
ruby3.2
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update ruby3.2 --releasever 2023.7.20250331 to update your system.
aarch64:
ruby3.2-rubygem-io-console-debuginfo-0.6.0-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-bundled-gems-debuginfo-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-debuginfo-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-devel-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo-3.1.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-debugsource-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-rubygem-bigdecimal-3.1.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-rubygem-io-console-0.6.0-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-rubygem-json-2.6.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-rubygem-psych-debuginfo-5.0.1-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-rubygem-json-debuginfo-2.6.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-rubygem-rbs-2.8.2-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-libs-debuginfo-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-bundled-gems-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-libs-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-rubygem-psych-5.0.1-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
ruby3.2-rubygem-rbs-debuginfo-2.8.2-183.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
noarch:
ruby3.2-rubygem-rdoc-6.5.1.1-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygem-rexml-3.3.9-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygems-3.4.19-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-default-gems-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygem-test-unit-3.5.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygem-rss-0.3.1-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygem-bundler-2.4.19-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygem-typeprof-0.21.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygems-devel-3.4.19-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygem-rake-13.0.6-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygem-power_assert-2.0.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygem-irb-1.6.2-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-rubygem-minitest-5.25.1-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
ruby3.2-doc-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
src:
ruby3.2-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.src
x86_64:
ruby3.2-rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo-3.1.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-libs-debuginfo-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-devel-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-bundled-gems-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-rubygem-json-2.6.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-debugsource-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-rubygem-psych-debuginfo-5.0.1-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-rubygem-rbs-2.8.2-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-rubygem-io-console-debuginfo-0.6.0-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-debuginfo-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-rubygem-bigdecimal-3.1.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-rubygem-rbs-debuginfo-2.8.2-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-bundled-gems-debuginfo-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-rubygem-io-console-0.6.0-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-libs-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-3.2.7-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-rubygem-json-debuginfo-2.6.3-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
ruby3.2-rubygem-psych-5.0.1-183.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64