Debian DLA-603-1 : ruby-activesupport-3.2 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 93131

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The support and utility classes used by the Rails 3.2 framework allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SystemStackError) via a large XML document depth.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.6-6+deb7u2.

Additionally this upload adds 'active_support/security_utils' that will be used by ruby-actionpack-3.2 to address CVE-2015-7576.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-activesupport-3.2 packages.

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 ruby-activesupport-3.2 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 93131

File Name: debian_DLA-603.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/29/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-activesupport-3.2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3227

BID: 75234

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