Ubuntu Security Update USN-7735-1: RubyGems vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that RubyGems incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause RubyGems to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-28755) It was discovered that RubyGems incorrectly handled decompressed domain names within a DNS packet. An attacker could use this issue to cause RubyGems to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2025-24294)

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