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CentOS 7 : ruby (CESA-2019:1235)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125316

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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

Security Fix(es) :

* rubygems: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-8324)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner (CVE-2019-8322)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in API response handling (CVE-2019-8323)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in errors (CVE-2019-8325)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected ruby packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fd82bebc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125316

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-1235.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/22/2019

Updated: 1/15/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-8324

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-rdoc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-tcltk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygems-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-8322, CVE-2019-8323, CVE-2019-8324, CVE-2019-8325

RHSA: 2019:1235