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RHEL 8 : ruby (RHSA-2024:4499)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 202189

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4499 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * rubygem-uri: ReDoS vulnerability - upstream's incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755 (CVE-2023-36617)

 * ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280)

 * ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281)

 * ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282)

 * REXML: DoS parsing an XML with many `<`s in an attribute value (CVE-2024-35176)

 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 RHEL ruby package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4499.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218614

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270749

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270750

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2276810

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280894

http://www.nessus.org/u?fda6eeb2

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4499

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 202189

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4499.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/11/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36617

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mysql2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-net-telnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bundler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bson-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mongo-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-abrt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-openssl, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-did_you_mean, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mysql2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bson, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-abrt-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-pg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-pg-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bundler-doc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36617, CVE-2024-27280, CVE-2024-27281, CVE-2024-27282, CVE-2024-35176

CWE: 125, 126, 185, 770, 94

RHSA: 2024:4499