Fedora 9 : ruby-1.8.6.230-1.fc9 (2008-5664)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 33261

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Jun 24 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-1

- New upstream release.

- Security fixes. (#452294).

- CVE-2008-1891: WEBrick CGI source disclosure.

- CVE-2008-2662: Integer overflow in rb_str_buf_append().

- CVE-2008-2663: Integer overflow in rb_ary_store().

- CVE-2008-2664: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format().

- CVE-2008-2725: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice().

- CVE-2008-2726: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice().

- ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: removed.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 33261

File Name: fedora_2008-5664.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 6/26/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1891, CVE-2008-2662, CVE-2008-2663, CVE-2008-2664, CVE-2008-2725, CVE-2008-2726

BID: 29903

CWE: 189, 22, 399

FEDORA: 2008-5664

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