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AlmaLinux 9 : ruby:3.1 (ALSA-2024:1576)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192894

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2024:1576 advisory.

 * ruby/cgi-gem: HTTP response splitting in CGI (CVE-2021-33621)
 * ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in URI (CVE-2023-28755)
 * ruby: ReDoS vulnerability - upstream's incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755 (CVE-2023-36617)
 * ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in Time (CVE-2023-28756)

 Bug Fix(es):

 * ruby/rubygem-irb: IRB has hard dependency on rubygem-rdoc (AlmaLinux-29048)
 * ruby: Ruby cannot read private key in FIPS mode on AlmaLinux 9 (AlmaLinux-12437)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-1576.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192894

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2024-1576.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 4/3/2024

Updated: 1/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33621

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rbs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-bundled-gems, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-json, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-typeprof, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-irb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bundler, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rss, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-pg, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mysql2-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-minitest, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-io-console, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-pg-doc, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mysql2, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rexml, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygems-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-default-gems, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33621, CVE-2023-28755, CVE-2023-28756, CVE-2023-36617

CWE: 113, 185, 20