The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3077 advisory.

  - TZInfo is a Ruby library that provides access to time zone data and allows times to be converted using     time zone rules. Versions prior to 0.36.1, as well as those prior to 1.2.10 when used with the Ruby data     source tzinfo-data, are vulnerable to relative path traversal. With the Ruby data source, time zones are     defined in Ruby files. There is one file per time zone. Time zone files are loaded with `require` on     demand. In the affected versions, `TZInfo::Timezone.get` fails to validate time zone identifiers     correctly, allowing a new line character within the identifier. With Ruby version 1.9.3 and later,     `TZInfo::Timezone.get` can be made to load unintended files with `require`, executing them within the Ruby     process. Versions 0.3.61 and 1.2.10 include fixes to correctly validate time zone identifiers. Versions     2.0.0 and later are not vulnerable. Version 0.3.61 can still load arbitrary files from the Ruby load path     if their name follows the rules for a valid time zone identifier and the file has a prefix of     `tzinfo/definition` within a directory in the load path. Applications should ensure that untrusted files     are not placed in a directory on the load path. As a workaround, the time zone identifier can be validated     before passing to `TZInfo::Timezone.get` by ensuring it matches the regular expression     `\A[A-Za-z0-9+\-_]+(?:\/[A-Za-z0-9+\-_]+)*\z`. (CVE-2022-31163)

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Debian DLA-3077-1 : ruby-tzinfo - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 164282

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