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RHEL 8 : ruby:2.5 (RHSA-2019:1972)

high Nessus Plugin ID 127642

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for ruby:2.5.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1972 advisory.

 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)

 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL ruby:2.5 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1972.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?42e50c6a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1972

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1692520

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 127642

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1972.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mysql2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-net-telnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bundler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bson-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mongo-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-abrt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-openssl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-did_you_mean, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mysql2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bson, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-abrt-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-pg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-pg-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bundler-doc

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: 7/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-8324

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2019:1972