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Fedora 21 : ruby-2.1.6-27.fc21 (2015-6377)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83125

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVE-2015-1855 ruby: OpenSSL extension hostname matching implementation violates RFC 6125

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=1209982

http://www.nessus.org/u?17fe2c5d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83125

File Name: fedora_2015-6377.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1855

FEDORA: 2015-6377