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RHEL 8 : ruby:2.6 (RHSA-2022:5338)
high Nessus Plugin ID 162635
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5338 advisory.Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: ruby (2.6.10). (BZ#2089374)
Security Fix(es):
* Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739)
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 affected packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?8039ee06
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5338
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 162635
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-5338.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 7/1/2022
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: 4.4
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
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-2022-28739
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: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-irb, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, 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
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: 6/30/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-28739