The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2024:1431 advisory.

  - The cgi gem before 0.1.0.2, 0.2.x before 0.2.2, and 0.3.x before 0.3.5 for Ruby allows HTTP response     splitting. This is relevant to applications that use untrusted user input either to generate an HTTP     response or to create a CGI::Cookie object. (CVE-2021-33621)

  - A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component through 0.12.0 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The URI parser     mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing     strings to URI objects. The fixed versions are 0.12.1, 0.11.1, 0.10.2 and 0.10.0.1. (CVE-2023-28755)

  - A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser     mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing     strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2. (CVE-2023-28756)

  - 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 incomplete     fix for CVE-2023-28755. Version 0.10.3 is also a fixed version. (CVE-2023-36617)

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AlmaLinux 8 : ruby:3.1 (ALSA-2024:1431)

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