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GLSA-200605-11 : Ruby: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21353

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200605-11 (Ruby: Denial of Service)

 Ruby uses blocking sockets for WEBrick and XMLRPC servers.
 Impact :

 An attacker could send large amounts of data to an affected server to block the socket and thus deny other connections to the server.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Ruby users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.4-r1'

See Also

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20051224.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200605-11

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21353

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200605-11.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ruby, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1931

BID: 17645

GLSA: 200605-11