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Fedora 18 : ruby-1.9.3.484-32.fc18 (2013-22315)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71328

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

An overflow in floating point number parsing was found in Ruby currently being shipped on Fedora 19. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-4164.

This new rpm should 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=1033546

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7db8df1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71328

File Name: fedora_2013-22315.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/29/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4164

BID: 63873

FEDORA: 2013-22315