Fedora 9 : rubygem-actionpack-2.1.1-2.fc9 (2009-2179)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35753

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2008-5189: CGI header injection vulnerability

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 rubygem-actionpack package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472510

http://www.nessus.org/u?8eff9cda

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35753

File Name: fedora_2009-2179.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/2/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5189

CWE: 352

FEDORA: 2009-2179