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Oracle Linux 9 : ruby:3.1 (ELSA-2024-3668)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200183

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-3668 advisory.

 ruby [3.1.5-144]
 - Upgrade to Ruby 3.1.5.
 Resolves: RHEL-33978
 - Fix buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO.
 Resolves: RHEL-34129
 - Fix RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc.
 Resolves: RHEL-34121
 - Fix arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search.
 Resolves: RHEL-33871

 [3.1.4-143]
 - Upgrade to Ruby 3.1.4.
 Resolves: RHEL-5586
 - Fix HTTP response splitting in CGI.
 Resolves: RHEL-5591
 - Fix ReDos vulnerability in URI.
 Resolves: RHEL-28919 Resolves: RHEL-5612
 - Fix ReDos vulnerability in Time.
 Resolves: RHEL-28920
 - Make RDoc soft dependency in IRB.
 Resolves: RHEL-5613

 [3.1.2-142]
 - Bypass git submodule test failure on Git >= 2.38.1.
 - Fix tests with Europe/Amsterdam pre-1970 time on tzdata version 2022b.
 - Fix for tzdata-2022g.
 - Fix OpenSSL.fips_mode and OpenSSL::PKey.read in OpenSSL 3 FIPS.
 Resolves: RHEL-5590
 - ssl: use ffdhe2048 from RFC 7919 as the default DH group parameters Related: RHEL-5590
 - Disable fiddle tests that use FFI closures.
 Related: RHEL-5590

 [3.1.2-141]
 - Upgrade to Ruby 3.1.2 by merging Fedora Rawhide branch (commit: b7b5473).
 Resolves: rhbz#2063773

 rubygem-mysql2 [0.5.4-1]
 - New upstream release 0.5.4 by merging Fedora rawhide branch (commit: e21b5b9) Resolves: rhbz#2063773

 [0.5.3-1]
 - New upstream release 0.5.3 by merging Fedora master branch (commit: 674d475) Resolves: rhbz#1817135

 rubygem-pg
 * Thu May 26 2022 Jarek Prokop - 1.3.5-1
 - Update to pg 1.3.5 Related: rhbz#2063773

 [1.2.3-1]
 - Update to pg 1.2.3 by merging Fedora master branch (commit: 5db4d26) Resolves: rhbz#1817135

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

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-3668.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200183

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-3668.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/7/2024

Updated: 6/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27282

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygems, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:4:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-psych, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:1:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-pg, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-io-console, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream_developer, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-typeprof, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:3:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-irb, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:2:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-bundler, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-mysql2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-pg-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-rbs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-mysql2-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-rexml, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-bundled-gems, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-default-gems, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-rss

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27280, CVE-2024-27281, CVE-2024-27282

IAVA: 2024-A-0328