The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7091-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has specific XML     characters in an attribute value using REXML gem. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash,     resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2024-35176, CVE-2024-39908, CVE-2024-41123)

    It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has many entity expansions     with SAX2 or pull parser API. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a     denial of service. (CVE-2024-41946)

    It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has many digits in a hex     numeric character reference. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a     denial of service. (CVE-2024-49761)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Ruby vulnerabilities (USN-7091-1)

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