RHEL 7 : rh-ruby27-ruby (RHSA-2022:6856)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 166011

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6856 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: rh-ruby27-ruby (2.7.6).
(BZ#2128631)

Security Fix(es):

* ruby: buffer overflow in CGI.escape_html (CVE-2021-41816)

* 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)

* 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 166011

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6856.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/11/2022

Updated: 11/8/2024

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41816

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-bundler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-did_you_mean, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-racc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-irb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-net-telnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-test-unit, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby27-rubygem-io-console

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41816, CVE-2021-41817, CVE-2021-41819, CVE-2022-28739

CWE: 119, 125, 400

RHSA: 2022:6856

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