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Fedora 36 : rubygem-nokogiri (2022-acff3f54b2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 169080

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-acff3f54b2 advisory.

 A potential bug was found on nokogiri on or before 1.13.9 overlooked some return values from functions used internally. This can lead to raise some illegal exception. This bug was assigned as CVE-2022-23476.
 This new rpm should fix this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 rubygem-nokogiri package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-acff3f54b2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169080

File Name: fedora_2022-acff3f54b2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/22/2022

Updated: 11/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23476

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:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-nokogiri, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23476