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openSUSE Security Update : ruby19 (openSUSE-SU-2013:0376-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 74909
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Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.Description
ruby19 was updated to fix various bugs and security issues: Update to 1.9.3 p385 (bnc#802406)- XSS exploit of RDoc documentation generated by rdoc (CVE-2013-0256)
- for other changes see /usr/share/doc/packages/ruby19/Changelog
Update to 1.9.3 p327 (bnc#789983)
- CVE-2012-5371 and plenty of other fixes
Update to 1.9.3 p286 (bnc#783511, bnc#791199)
- This release includes some security fixes, and many other bug fixes. $SAFE escaping vulnerability about Exception#to_s / NameError#to_s (CVE-2012-4464, CVE-2012-4466)
- Unintentional file creation caused by inserting an illegal NUL character many other bug fixes.
(CVE-2012-4522) Also following bugfixes and packaging fixes were done :
- make sure the rdoc output is more stable for build-compare (new patch ruby-sort-rdoc-output.patch)
- readd the private header *atomic.h
- remove build depencency on ca certificates - only causing cycles
- one more header needed for rubygem-ruby-debug-base19
- install vm_core.h and its dependencies as ruby-devel-extra
- move the provides to the ruby package instead
- add provides for the internal gems
- restore the old ruby macros and the gem wrapper script
- gem_install_wrapper no longer necessary
Solution
Update the affected ruby19 packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783511
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789983
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791199
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802406
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00002.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 74909
File Name: openSUSE-2013-167.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 6/13/2014
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby19-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby19-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby19-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby19-devel-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby19-doc-ri, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby19, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby19-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby19-tk-debuginfo
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2013
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2012-4464, CVE-2012-4466, CVE-2012-4522, CVE-2012-5371, CVE-2013-0256