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Debian DLA-299-1 : ruby1.8 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 85654

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

'sheepman' fixed a vulnerability in Ruby 1.8: DL::dlopen could open a library with tainted name even if $SAFE > 0.

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', this issue has been fixed in ruby1.8 1.8.7.302-2squeeze5.

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/2015/08/msg00013.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85654

File Name: debian_DLA-299.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-5147