A use-after-free vulnerability has been discovered in the pthread-based getaddrinfo timeout handler of Ruby. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-46727. This issue has been fixed in Ruby 4.0.5. We recommend upgrading Ruby. Details A race condition exists in the timeout cancellation path of rb_getaddrinfo used by Addrinfo.getaddrinfo(..., timeout:) and Socket.tcp(...…