The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6784 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-39908)

    * rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace     character, >] and ]> (CVE-2024-41123)

    * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-41946)

    * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-43398)

    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.

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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RHEL 8 : ruby:3.3 (RHSA-2024:6784)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210480

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