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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : ruby1.8 vulnerability (USN-325-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27903

Synopsis

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

Description

The alias function, certain directory operations, and regular expressions did not correctly implement safe levels. Depending on the application these flaws might allow attackers to bypass safe level restrictions and perform unintended operations.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/325-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27903

File Name: ubuntu_USN-325-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtcltk-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libiconv-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmlrpc-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libzlib-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurses-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libreadline-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby1.8-elisp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libopenssl-ruby1.8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:librexml-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsyslog-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdbm-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtest-unit-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby1.8-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebrick-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbigdecimal-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby1.8-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libyaml-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libstrscan-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liberb-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:irb1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsoap-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rdoc1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libruby1.8-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdl-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdrb-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ri1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpty-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgdbm-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtk-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsdbm-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libracc-runtime-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby1.8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3694

BID: 18944

USN: 325-1