Debian DLA-1359-1 : ruby1.8 security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 109284

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the interpreter for the Ruby language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues :

CVE-2017-17742

Aaron Patterson reported that WEBrick bundled with Ruby was vulnerable to an HTTP response splitting vulnerability. It was possible for an attacker to inject fake HTTP responses if a script accepted an external input and output it without modifications.

CVE-2018-6914

ooooooo_q discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir.mktmpdir method in the tmpdir library. It made it possible for attackers to create arbitrary directories or files via a .. (dot dot) in the prefix argument.

CVE-2018-8777

Eric Wong reported an out-of-memory DoS vulnerability related to a large request in WEBrick bundled with Ruby.

CVE-2018-8778

aerodudrizzt found a buffer under-read vulnerability in the Ruby String#unpack method. If a big number was passed with the specifier @, the number was treated as a negative value, and an out-of-buffer read occurred. Attackers could read data on heaps if an script accepts an external input as the argument of String#unpack.

CVE-2018-8779

ooooooo_q reported that the UNIXServer.open and UNIXSocket.open methods of the socket library bundled with Ruby did not check for NUL bytes in the path argument. The lack of check made the methods vulnerable to unintentional socket creation and unintentional socket access.

CVE-2018-8780

ooooooo_q discovered an unintentional directory traversal in some methods in Dir, by the lack of checking for NUL bytes in their parameter.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.8 packages.

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Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 109284

File Name: debian_DLA-1359.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/24/2018

Updated: 10/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8780

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby1.8, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtcltk-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ri1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby1.8-examples, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby1.8-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby1.8-full, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libruby1.8-dbg

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17742, CVE-2018-6914, CVE-2018-8777, CVE-2018-8778, CVE-2018-8779, CVE-2018-8780

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