The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3668 advisory.

    Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text     files and to perform system management tasks.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: ruby (3.1). (RHEL-35449)

    Security Fix(es):

    * ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280)

    * ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281)

    * ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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RHEL 9 : ruby:3.1 (RHSA-2024:3668)

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