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AlmaLinux 8 : ruby:2.6 (ALSA-2022:0543)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158828

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2022:0543 advisory.

 * rubygem-bundler: Dependencies of gems with explicit source may be installed from a different source (CVE-2020-36327)

 * rubygem-rdoc: Command injection vulnerability in RDoc (CVE-2021-31799)

 * ruby: FTP PASV command response can cause Net::FTP to connect to arbitrary host (CVE-2021-31810)

 * ruby: StartTLS stripping vulnerability in Net::IMAP (CVE-2021-32066)

 * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817)

 * ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2022-0543.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 158828

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2022-0543.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 3/11/2022

Updated: 1/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36327

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36327, CVE-2021-31799, CVE-2021-31810, CVE-2021-32066, CVE-2021-41817, CVE-2021-41819