Debian DSA-4364-1 : ruby-loofah - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 121057

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that ruby-loofah, a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, performed insufficient sanitising of SVG elements.

Solution

Upgrade the ruby-loofah packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.3-2+deb9u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 121057

File Name: debian_DSA-4364.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/10/2019

Updated: 6/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16468

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-loofah, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16468

DSA: 4364

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