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RHEL 6 : rubygem packages (RHSA-2013:0728)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119438

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update fixes one security issue in multiple rubygem packages for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.1.3.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks.

It was found that documentation created by RDoc was vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. If such documentation was accessible over a network, and a remote attacker could trick a user into visiting a specially crafted URL, it would lead to arbitrary web script execution in the context of the user's session. As RDoc is used for creating documentation for Ruby source files (such as classes, modules, and so on), it is not a common scenario to make such documentation accessible over the network. (CVE-2013-0256)

This update provides a number of updated rubygem packages that have had their documentation regenerated with a corrected version of RDoc.

Red Hat would like to thank Eric Hodel of RDoc upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Evgeny Ermakov as the original reporter.

Users of Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.1.3 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0728

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0256

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119438

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0728.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/6/2018

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: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0256

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-bcrypt-ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-treetop, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-ci_reporter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-compass, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-rack-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-bson, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-fastthread, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-chunky_png, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-fastthread-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-activesupport, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-bcrypt-ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-http_connection, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-rspec, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-rack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-haml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-xml-simple

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/9/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0256

BID: 57785

RHSA: 2013:0728