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Fedora 18 : rubygem-json-1.6.8-1.fc18 (2013-3052)

high Nessus Plugin ID 65040

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

A security flaw was discovered on the previous json that there is a denial of service and unsafe object creation vulnerability. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-0269.

This new rpm will fix this issue.

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-json package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?abe1d1ea

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910313

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 65040

File Name: fedora_2013-3052.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-json

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0269

BID: 57899

FEDORA: 2013-3052