RHEL 6 : ruby (RHSA-2011:1581)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57017

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1581 advisory.

- ruby: Properly initialize the random number generator when forking new process (CVE-2011-2705, CVE-2011-3009)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c53b8acf

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673162

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674787

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706332

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717709

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722887

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730287

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1581

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57017

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1581.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/6/2011

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3009

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-ri, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-tcltk, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2705, CVE-2011-3009

BID: 49015, 49126

RHSA: 2011:1581