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Oracle Linux 7 : ruby (ELSA-2014-1912)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79594

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1912 advisory.

 - Fix REXML billion laughs attack via parameter entity expansion (CVE-2014-8080).
 Resolves: rhbz#1163998
 - REXML incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080 (CVE-2014-8090).
 Resolves: rhbz#1163998
 - Fix off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes() function (CVE-2014-4975) Resolves: rhbz#1163998

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1912.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79594

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-1912.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/27/2014

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4975

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8080

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-tcltk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-minitest, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rubygems-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4975, CVE-2014-8080, CVE-2014-8090

BID: 68474, 70935, 71230

RHSA: 2014:1912