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Debian DSA-1235-1 : ruby1.8 - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 23848

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in the CGI library included with Ruby, the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.

Solution

Upgrade the ruby1.8 package.

For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.2-7sarge5.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=398457

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1235

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 23848

File Name: debian_DSA-1235.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:ruby1.8, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5467

BID: 20777

DSA: 1235