Debian DLA-2070-1 : ruby-excon security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133103

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

In RubyGem excon before 0.71.0, there was a race condition around persistent connections, where a connection which is interrupted (such as by a timeout) would leave data on the socket. Subsequent requests would then read this data, returning content from the previous response.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.33.0-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-excon packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected ruby-excon package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133103

File Name: debian_DLA-2070.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/21/2020

Updated: 3/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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:debian:debian_linux:ruby-excon, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16779

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