Fedora 13 : ruby-1.8.6.420-2.fc13 (2011-1913)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52485

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Two patches backported from 1.8.7 branch, for

- Symlink race condition in FileUtils.remove_entry_secure

- bypass of $SAFE mechanism in Exception#to_s

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: Medium

ID: 52485

File Name: fedora_2011-1913.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/2/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1004, CVE-2011-1005

FEDORA: 2011-1913

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