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RHEL 5 : ruby (RHSA-2007:0965)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28202

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated ruby packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming.

An SSL certificate validation flaw was discovered in several Ruby Net modules. The libraries were not checking the requested host name against the common name (CN) in the SSL server certificate, possibly allowing a man in the middle attack. (CVE-2007-5162, CVE-2007-5770)

Users of Ruby should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-5162

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-5770

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0965

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28202

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0965.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-mode, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-ri, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-tcltk, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5162, CVE-2007-5770

BID: 25847, 26421

CWE: 287

RHSA: 2007:0965