Fedora Core 6 : ruby-1.8.5.113-1.fc6 (2007-718)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 26936

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Oct 4 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.5.113-1

- New upstream release.

- ruby-1.8.5-CVE-2007-5162.patch: security fix for Net::HTTP that is insufficient verification of SSL certificate. (#313801)

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?00449031

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 26936

File Name: fedora_2007-718.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-docs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-mode, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-ri, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-tcltk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5162

CWE: 287

FEDORA: 2007-718