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Fedora 17 : ruby-1.9.3.327-19.fc17 (2012-18017)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 62955
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Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
A security flaw was found on ruby currently shiped on Fedora 18 that carefully crafted sequence of strings may cause a denial of service attack on the service that parses the sequence to create a Hash object by using the strings as keys. This issue is now registered as CVE-2012-5371.This new package should fix this issue.
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Solution
Update the affected ruby package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 62955
File Name: fedora_2012-18017.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 11/19/2012
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 2.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2012
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2012-5371
BID: 56484
FEDORA: 2012-18017