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Fedora 8 : ruby-1.8.6.114-1.fc8 (2008-2443)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 31432
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
- Tue Mar 4 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.114-1- Security fix for CVE-2008-1145.
- Improve a spec file. (#226381)
- Correct License tag.
- Fix a timestamp issue.
- Own a arch-specific directory.
- Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.6.111-9
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
- Tue Feb 19 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-8
- Rebuild for gcc-4.3.
- Tue Jan 15 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-7
- Revert the change of libruby-static.a. (#428384)
- Fri Jan 11 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-6
- Fix an unnecessary replacement for shebang. (#426835)
- Fri Jan 4 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-5
- Rebuild.
- Fri Dec 28 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-4
- Clean up again.
- Fri Dec 21 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-3
- Clean up the spec file.
- Remove ruby-man-1.4.6 stuff. this is entirely the out-dated document. this could be replaced by ri.
- Disable the static library building.
- Tue Dec 4 2007 Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org> - 1.8.6.111-2
- Rebuild for openssl bump
- Wed Oct 31 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com>
- Fix the dead link.
- Mon Oct 29 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-1
- New upstream release.
- ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: Update a bit with backporting the changes at trunk to enable the fix without any modifications on the users' scripts. Note that Net::HTTP#enable_post_connection_check isn't available anymore. If you want to disable this post-check, you should give OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE to Net::HTTP#verify_mode= instead of.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected ruby package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 31432
File Name: fedora_2008-2443.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 3/13/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.2
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-1145
BID: 28123