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Debian DLA-224-1 : ruby1.8 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83531

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that the Ruby OpenSSL extension, part of the interpreter for the Ruby language, did not properly implement hostname matching, in violation of RFC 6125. This could allow remote attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack via crafted SSL certificates.

For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.7.302-2squeeze4.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem was fixed in version 1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u3.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/05/msg00007.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/ruby1.8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83531

File Name: debian_DLA-224.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2015

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby1.8-elisp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtcltk-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ri1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby1.8-examples, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby1.8-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libruby1.8-dbg

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1855

BID: 74446