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Rocky Linux 8 : ruby (RLSA-2024:4499)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 202386
Synopsis
The remote Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:4499 advisory.* 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)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Rocky 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://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:4499
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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 202386
File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-4499.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Published: 7/15/2024
Updated: 7/15/2024
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
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:rocky:linux:rubygem-bundler, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-abrt, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-mongo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-bson-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-abrt-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-pg-debugsource, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-json-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-openssl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-bson, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-mongo-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-mysql2-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-pg, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-mysql2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-openssl, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-bson-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-pg-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-mysql2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-net-telnet, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-bundler-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-did_you_mean, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-psych-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-mysql2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-pg-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-bson-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygem-io-console-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:rubygems-devel
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2023-36617, CVE-2024-27280, CVE-2024-27281, CVE-2024-27282, CVE-2024-35176
IAVA: 2024-A-0328