Fedora 19 : ruby-2.0.0.195-8.fc19 (2013-8738)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66684

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to Ruby 2.0.0-p195.

- Fix object taint bypassing in DL and Fiddle (CVE-2013-2065).

- Fix build against OpenSSL with enabled ECC curves.

- Add aarch64 support.

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=962035

http://www.nessus.org/u?569ed74a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66684

File Name: fedora_2013-8738.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:19, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2065

FEDORA: 2013-8738