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Fedora 12 : ruby-1.8.6.399-6.fc12 (2010-13341)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 48416
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Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
A patch is applied to this rpm for XSS security vulnerability found in WEBrick module which is now tagged as CVE-2010-0541. A bug was reported that ruby crashes when executing a script which uses some unqualified constant. Also it seems that Ruby/Tk in current rpm in Fedora causes crash even in some easy case. This new rpm will fix these issues.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: 48416
File Name: fedora_2010-13341.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 8/24/2010
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12, 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: 8/23/2010
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2010-0541
FEDORA: 2010-13341