Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : ruby1.9.1 vulnerabilities (USN-1602-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62496

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Tyler Hicks and Shugo Maeda discovered that Ruby incorrectly allowed untainted strings to be modified in protective safe levels. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions.
(CVE-2012-4464, CVE-2012-4466).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libruby1.9.1 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62496

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1602-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 10/11/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libruby1.9.1

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/25/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4464, CVE-2012-4466

BID: 55757

USN: 1602-1

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