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Fedora 15 : ruby-1.8.7.352-1.fc15 (2011-9359)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55677

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New version 1.8.7p352 is released, fixing randomization process in forked process (CVE-2011-2686). Also ruby path is fixed to have no duplicate directories on all archs.

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722415

http://www.nessus.org/u?25e2b5e9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55677

File Name: fedora_2011-9359.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2686, CVE-2011-2705

FEDORA: 2011-9359