Debian dla-3565 : ruby-loofah - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181445

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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-3565 advisory.

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3565-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Sylvain Beucler September 13, 2023 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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Package : ruby-loofah Version : 2.2.3-1+deb10u2 CVE ID : CVE-2022-23514 CVE-2022-23515 CVE-2022-23516 Debian Bug : 1026083

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Loofah, a Ruby library for HTML/XML transformation and sanitization. An attacker could launch cross-site scripting (XSS) and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks through crafted HTML/XML documents.

CVE-2022-23514

Inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption.

CVE-2022-23515

Cross-site scripting via the image/svg+xml media type in data URIs.

CVE-2022-23516

Loofah uses recursion for sanitizing CDATA sections, making it susceptible to stack exhaustion and raising a SystemStackError exception. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.3-1+deb10u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-loofah packages.

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

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 ruby-loofah packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181445

File Name: debian_DLA-3565.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/14/2023

Updated: 1/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23515

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-loofah, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23514, CVE-2022-23515, CVE-2022-23516

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