EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.1 : ruby (EulerOS-SA-2018-1374)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119065

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

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

- The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.i1/4^CVE-2014-8080i1/4%0

- The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.i1/4^CVE-2014-8090i1/4%0

- Off-by-one error in the encodes function in pack.c in Ruby 1.9.3 and earlier, and 2.x through 2.1.2, when using certain format string specifiers, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via vectors that trigger a stack-based buffer overflow.(CVE-2014-4975)

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?688a1521

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119065

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1374.nasl

Version: 1.39

Type: local

Published: 11/21/2018

Updated: 7/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4975

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:rubygem-json, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.1, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:rubygem-psych

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4975, CVE-2014-8080, CVE-2014-8090

BID: 68474, 70935, 71230