RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-ruby24-ruby (RHSA-2019:1150)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194140

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1150 advisory.

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-ruby24-ruby (2.4.6).
(BZ#1700275)

Security Fix(es):

* rubygems: Installing a malicious gem may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-8324)

* rubygems: Delete directory using symlink when decompressing tar (CVE-2019-8320)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in verbose (CVE-2019-8321)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner (CVE-2019-8322)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in API response handling (CVE-2019-8323)

* rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in errors (CVE-2019-8325)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194140

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1150.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-8320

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-8324

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-did_you_mean, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-net-telnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-power_assert, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ruby24-ruby-irb

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-8320, CVE-2019-8321, CVE-2019-8322, CVE-2019-8323, CVE-2019-8324, CVE-2019-8325

CWE: 20, 22, 88

RHSA: 2019:1150

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