openSUSE Security Update : ruby (openSUSE-SU-2012:0228-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 76015

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of ruby provides 1.8.7p357, which contains many stability fixes and bug fixes, which are fully compatible with the previous version. You can review the detailed list here :

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7_357/ChangeLog

The particularly noteworthy fixes are :

- Hash functions are now using a randomized seed to avoid algorithmic complexity attacks (CVE-2011-4815). For this OpenSSL::Random.seed at the SecureRandom.random_bytes is used if available.

- mkconfig.rb: fix for continued lines.

- Fix Infinity to be greater than any bignum number.

- initialize store->ex_data.sk.

- some IPv6 related fixes

- zlib fixes

- reinitialize PRNG when forking children (CVE-2011-2686/CVE-2011-3009)

- securerandom fixes (CVE-2011-2705)

- uri route_to fixes

- fix race condition with variables and autoload

Solution

Update the affected ruby packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 76015

File Name: suse_11_4_ruby-120117.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-doc-ri, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-examples, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-tk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-test-suite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby-debugsource

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2686, CVE-2011-2705, CVE-2011-3009, CVE-2011-4815

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