
CVE catalog
CVE-2025-24294
Ruby vulnerabilities
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.66% · Oct 25, 2026
The attack vector is a potential Denial of Service (DoS). The vulnerability is caused by an insufficient check on the length of a decompressed domain name within a DNS packet. An attacker can craft a malicious DNS packet containing a highly compressed domain name. When the resolv library parses such a packet, the name decompression process consumes a large amount of CPU resources, as the library does not limit the resulting length of the name. This resource consumption can cause the application thread to become unresponsive, resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | ruby3.1 | bookworm | 3.1.2-7+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | ruby3.1 | bookworm-security | 3.1.2-7+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby3.1 | noble | Not reported | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby3.2 | noble | 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.6 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | libruby3.2 | noble | 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.6 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | ruby3.2-dev | noble | 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.6 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | ruby3.2-doc | noble | 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.6 | fixed |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | linux enterprise module for basesystem 15 sp6 | 2.5.9-150000.4.54.1 | fixed |
| Opensuse | ruby2.5 | leap 15.6 | 2.5.9-150000.4.54.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | ruby3.1 | source | bookworm | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | ruby3.2 | deb | noble | 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | libruby3.2 | deb | noble | 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | ruby3.2-dev | deb | noble | 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | ruby3.2-doc | deb | noble | 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.6 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | rpm | linux enterprise module for basesystem 15 sp6 | 2.5.9-150000.4.54.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2025:3776-1 | Not reported |
| Opensuse | ruby2.5 | rpm | leap 15.6 | 2.5.9-150000.4.54.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2025:3776-1 | Not reported |
Notes
[bookworm] ruby3.1: Minor issue
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [libruby3.1]Affected
Source package: [ruby3.1]
Details (4)
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· amd64 · bookwormAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· arm64 · bookwormAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· amd64 · bookworm-securityAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· arm64 · bookworm-securityAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
- [ruby3.1]Affected
Details (4)
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· amd64 · bookwormAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· arm64 · bookwormAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· amd64 · bookworm-securityAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· arm64 · bookworm-securityAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
- [ruby3.1-dev]Affected
Source package: [ruby3.1]
Details (4)
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· amd64 · bookwormAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· arm64 · bookwormAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· amd64 · bookworm-securityAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· arm64 · bookworm-securityAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
- [ruby3.1-doc]Affected
Source package: [ruby3.1]
Details (4)
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· all · bookwormAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· all · bookwormAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· all · bookworm-securityAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
3.1.2-7+deb12u1· all · bookworm-securityAffected
usn · ruby3.1 · debian · bookworm; usn · ruby3.1 · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [libruby3.3]Affected
Source package: [ruby3.3]
Details (2)
3.3.8-2· amd64 · trixieAffected
usn · ruby3.3 · debian · 13
3.3.8-2· arm64 · trixieAffected
usn · ruby3.3 · debian · 13
- [ruby3.3]Affected
Details (2)
3.3.8-2· amd64 · trixieAffected
usn · ruby3.3 · debian · 13
3.3.8-2· arm64 · trixieAffected
usn · ruby3.3 · debian · 13
- [ruby3.3-dev]Affected
Source package: [ruby3.3]
Details (2)
3.3.8-2· amd64 · trixieAffected
usn · ruby3.3 · debian · 13
3.3.8-2· arm64 · trixieAffected
usn · ruby3.3 · debian · 13
- [ruby3.3-doc]Affected
Source package: [ruby3.3]
Details (2)
3.3.8-2· all · trixieAffected
usn · ruby3.3 · debian · 13
3.3.8-2· all · trixieAffected
usn · ruby3.3 · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/rhsa-2025_23063.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-24294]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:3776-1]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-24294]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-24294.json]
- [https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7734-1]
- [https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2026/wid-sec-w-2026-0778.json]
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