Fedora 18 : rubygem-activesupport-3.2.8-3.fc18 (2013-4198)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65751

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix for jdom: XML Parsing Vulnerability affecting JRuby users.

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=921334

http://www.nessus.org/u?07a50470

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65751

File Name: fedora_2013-4198.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1856

BID: 58554

FEDORA: 2013-4198