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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ruby2.5 (SUSE-SU-2025:0736-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216927

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0736-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-47220: Fixed a HTTP request smuggling attack in WEBrick (bsc#1230930)
 - CVE-2024-49761: Fixed a ReDoS vulnerability in ruby rexml (bsc#1232440)

 Other fixes:

 - [ruby/uri] Fix quadratic backtracking on invalid relative URI
 - [ruby/time] Make RFC2822 regexp linear
 - [ruby/time] Fix quadratic backtracking on invalid time
 - merge some parts of CGI 0.1.1

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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://bugzilla.suse.com/1230930

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-47220

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232440

http://www.nessus.org/u?8f871588

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49761

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 216927

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0736-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2025

Updated: 2/28/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-stdlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libruby2_5-2_5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47220, CVE-2024-49761

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0736-1