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CVE-2021-41816 — CRITICAL severity vulnerability | Release Alert

CVE-2021-41816

9.8

CRITICALCVSS v3

Published

February 6, 2022

CVSS v2

7.5 HIGH

Affected

13 projects

Assigned by

MITRE

Severity scale

010

Description

CGI.escape_html in Ruby before 2.7.5 and 3.x before 3.0.3 has an integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via a long string on platforms (such as Windows) where size_t and long have different numbers of bytes. This also affects the CGI gem before 0.3.1 for Ruby.

Ruby

ChocolateyRuby is a dynamic, open source programming language focusing on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. This package provides a self-contained [Windows-based installer](https://rubyinstaller.org) that includes the Ruby language, an execution environment, important documentation, and more. ## Package Parameters - `/InstallDir` - Ruby installation directory, by default `c:\tools\RubyXY` where XY are major and minor version parts. - `/NoPath` - Do not add ruby bin folder to machine PATH. Example: `choco install ruby --package-parameters="'/NoPath ""/InstallDir:C:\your\install\path""'"` ## Notes - To install ruby development kit ruby installer provides `ridk` command. It provides an easy way to install msys2 via `ridk install 1`, however, the installation is interactive. To accomplish unattended install, use [msys2](https://chocolatey.org/packages/msys2) package.

>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.3, >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.5NVD