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RHEL 6 : rubygem-passenger (RHSA-2013:1136)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119341

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated rubygem-passenger packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.2.2.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

rubygem-passenger is a web server for Ruby, Python and Node.js applications.

The rubygem-passenger gem created and re-used temporary directories and files in an insecure fashion. A local attacker could use these flaws to conduct a denial of service attack, take over the operation of the application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running rubygem-passenger. (CVE-2013-2119, CVE-2013-4136)

Note: By default, OpenShift Enterprise uses polyinstantiation (per user) for the /tmp/ directory, thereby minimizing the risk and impact of exploitation by local attackers of both CVE-2013-2119 and CVE-2013-4136.

The CVE-2013-2119 issue was discovered by Michael Scherer of the Red Hat Regional IT team.

The following packages are included with this update as dependencies of the updated Ruby 1.8 passenger packages :

rubygem-spruz-0.2.5-4.el6op rubygem-file-tail-1.0.5-4.el6op

Users of Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.2.2 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. After installing the updated packages, manual action is required before the update takes effect. Refer to the Solution section for details.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1136

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2119

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4136

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119341

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-1136.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2018

Updated: 7/17/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2119

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-passenger-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-passenger-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-passenger, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-passenger-native, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-passenger, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-spruz-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-file-tail-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-passenger-native, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-passenger-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-passenger-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-mod_passenger, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-passenger-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-spruz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-passenger-native-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-passenger-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mod_passenger, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-passenger-native-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-file-tail

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2119, CVE-2013-4136

RHSA: 2013:1136