Fedora 17 : rubygem-activesupport-3.0.11-8.fc17 (2013-1710)

high Nessus Plugin ID 64540

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVE-2013-0333.

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 rubygem-activesupport package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903440

http://www.nessus.org/u?1adf5f5d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 64540

File Name: fedora_2013-1710.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-activesupport, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails JSON Processor YAML Deserialization Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0333

BID: 57575

FEDORA: 2013-1710