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USN-8556-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

calendar_today July 16, 2026 domain ubuntu

It was discovered that the Net::IMAP client in Ruby did not properly sanitize Symbol arguments passed to IMAP commands. A remote attacker controlling a malicious IMAP server, or able to influence command arguments, could use this to inject arbitrary IMAP commands via CRLF sequences. (CVE-2026-42258) It was discovered that the Zlib::GzipReader in Ruby did not correctly ensure sufficient buffer capacity in the zstream_buffer_ungets function.

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