openSUSE 10 Security Update : ruby (ruby-2219)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27422

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A denial of service problem in the CGI multipart parsing of 'ruby' was fixed, which could have allowed remote attackers to affect a denial of service attack against ruby based webservices. (CVE-2006-5467)

Solution

Update the affected ruby package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27422

File Name: suse_ruby-2219.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5467

Detections

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