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Fedora 18 : ruby-1.9.3.429-30.fc18 (2013-8375)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66680

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability was found in DL and Fiddle in Ruby where tainted strings can be used by system calls regardless of the $SAFE level set in Ruby. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-2065.

This 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 ruby package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962862

http://www.nessus.org/u?2922d670

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66680

File Name: fedora_2013-8375.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/30/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2065

FEDORA: 2013-8375