Debian dla-3408 : jruby - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 174967

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3408 advisory.

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3408-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Adrian Bunk April 30, 2023 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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Package : jruby Version : 9.1.17.0-3+deb10u1 CVE ID : CVE-2017-17742 CVE-2019-16201 CVE-2019-16254 CVE-2019-16255 CVE-2020-25613 CVE-2021-31810 CVE-2021-32066 CVE-2023-28755 CVE-2023-28756 Debian Bug : 972230 1014818

Several vulnerabilities were fixed in JRuby, a Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.

CVE-2017-17742 CVE-2019-16254

HTTP Response Splitting attacks in the HTTP server of WEBrick.

CVE-2019-16201

Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability of WEBrick's Digest access authentication.

CVE-2019-16255

Code injection vulnerability of Shell#[] and Shell#test.

CVE-2020-25613

HTTP Request Smuggling attack in WEBrick.

CVE-2021-31810

Trusting FTP PASV responses vulnerability in Net::FTP.

CVE-2021-32066

Net::IMAP did not raise an exception when StartTLS fails with an an unknown response.

CVE-2023-28755

Quadratic backtracking on invalid URI.

CVE-2023-28756

The Time parser mishandled invalid strings that have specific characters.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.17.0-3+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your jruby packages.

For the detailed security status of jruby please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/jruby

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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

Upgrade the jruby packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174967

File Name: debian_DLA-3408.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/1/2023

Updated: 1/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16255

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jruby

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17742, CVE-2019-16201, CVE-2019-16254, CVE-2019-16255, CVE-2020-25613, CVE-2021-31810, CVE-2021-32066, CVE-2023-28755, CVE-2023-28756

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