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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Ruby vulnerabilities (USN-7091-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210332

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7091-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has specific XML characters in an attribute value using REXML gem. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2024-35176, CVE-2024-39908, CVE-2024-41123)

 It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-41946)

 It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has many digits in a hex numeric character reference. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-49761)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7091-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210332

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7091-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/5/2024

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-49761

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libruby3.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby3.2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libruby3.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby3.3-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby3.2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby3.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby3.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby3.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libruby3.2

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35176, CVE-2024-39908, CVE-2024-41123, CVE-2024-41946, CVE-2024-49761

USN: 7091-1