openSUSE 10 Security Update : ruby (ruby-6339)

high Nessus Plugin ID 42032

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This ruby update improves return value checks for openssl function OCSP_basic_verify() (CVE-2009-0642) which allowed an attacker to use revoked certificates. The entropy of DNS identifiers was increased (CVE-2008-3905) to avaid spoofing attacks. The code for parsing XML data was vulnerable to a denial of service bug (CVE-2008-3790). An attack on algorithm complexity was possible in function WEBrick::HTTP::DefaultFileHandler() while parsing HTTP requests (CVE-2008-3656) as well as by using the regex engine (CVE-2008-3443) causing high CPU load. Ruby's access restriction code (CVE-2008-3655) as well as safe-level handling using function DL.dlopen() (CVE-2008-3657) and big decimal handling (CVE-2009-1904) was improved.
Bypassing HTTP basic authentication (authenticate_with_http_digest) is not possible anymore.

Solution

Update the affected ruby packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 42032

File Name: suse_ruby-6339.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/6/2009

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:10.3, 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/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3443, CVE-2008-3655, CVE-2008-3656, CVE-2008-3657, CVE-2008-3790, CVE-2008-3905, CVE-2009-0642, CVE-2009-1904

CWE: 189, 20, 264, 287, 399

Detections

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