Merge pull request #873 from shubhamshinde360/PA-6507-gem-update-rexml

(PA-6507) Update gem rexml from default to 3.2.9 for CVE-2024-35176

configs/components/rubygem-rexml.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 component 'rubygem-rexml' do |pkg, settings, platform|
-  pkg.version '3.2.6'
-  pkg.md5sum 'a57288ae5afed07dd08c9f1302da7b25'
+  pkg.version '3.2.9'
+  pkg.md5sum '73fcf4d686d68dafbca57f941097ebf0'
 
+  # If the platform is solaris with sparc architecture in agent-runtime-7.x project, we want to gem install rexml
+  # ignoring the dependencies, this is because the pl-ruby version used in these platforms is ancient so it gets
+  # confused when installing rexml. It tries to install rexml's dependency 'strscan' by building native extensions
+  # but fails. We can ignore insalling that since strscan is already shipped with ruby 2.7.8 as its default gem.
+  if platform.name =~ /solaris-(10|11)-sparc/ && settings[:ruby_version].to_i < 3
+    settings["#{pkg.get_name}_gem_install_options".to_sym] = "--ignore-dependencies"
+  end
+
   instance_eval File.read('configs/components/_base-rubygem.rb')
 end

configs/projects/_shared-agent-components.rb

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 proj.component 'rubygem-gettext'
 proj.component 'rubygem-fast_gettext'
 proj.component 'rubygem-ffi'
+proj.component 'rubygem-rexml'
 
 if platform.is_windows? || platform.is_solaris? || platform.is_aix?
   proj.component 'rubygem-minitar'