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openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-excon (openSUSE-2020-36)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132912

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for rubygem-excon fixes the following issues :

CVE-2019-16779 (boo#1159342): Fix a race condition around persistent connections, where a connection, which was interrupted, would leave data on the socket. Subsequent requests would then read this data, returning content from the previous response.

Solution

Update the affected rubygem-excon packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159342

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132912

File Name: openSUSE-2020-36.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2020

Updated: 3/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16779

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.5-rubygem-excon, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.5-rubygem-excon-testsuite, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16779