openSUSE 10 Security Update : ruby (ruby-5483)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34028

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of ruby fixes :

- a possible information leakage (CVE-2008-1145)

- a directory traversal bug (CVE-2008-1891) in WEBrick

- various memory corruptions and integer overflows in array and string handling (CVE-2008-2662, CVE-2008-2663, CVE-2008-2664, CVE-2008-2725, CVE-2008-2726, CVE-2008-2727, CVE-2008-2728)

Solution

Update the affected ruby packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34028

File Name: suse_ruby-5483.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/22/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-doc-ri, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-examples, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-test-suite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-doc-html

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1145, CVE-2008-1891, CVE-2008-2662, CVE-2008-2663, CVE-2008-2664, CVE-2008-2725, CVE-2008-2726, CVE-2008-2728

CWE: 189, 22, 399