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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.0 : ruby (EulerOS-SA-2018-1347)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118435

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the ruby packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - It was found that WEBrick could be forced to use an excessive amount of memory during the processing of HTTP requests, leading to a Denial of Service. An attacker could use this flaw to send huge requests to a WEBrick application, resulting in the server running out of memory.(CVE-2018-8777)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ruby package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?90d080d6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118435

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1347.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 10/26/2018

Updated: 2/1/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8777

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8777