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Debian dsa-5635 : yard - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191531

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5635 advisory.

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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5635-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 04, 2024 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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 Package : yard CVE ID : CVE-2024-27285

 Aviv Keller discovered that the frames.html file generated by YARD, a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language, was vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

 For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.24-1+deb11u1.

 For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.28-2+deb12u2.

 We recommend that you upgrade your yard packages.

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

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

 Mailing list: [email protected]
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Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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

Upgrade the yard packages.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/yard

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-27285

https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/yard

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/yard

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191531

File Name: debian_DSA-5635.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2024

Updated: 2/17/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27285

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:yard-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:yard, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0

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: 3/4/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27285