Fedora 9 : ruby-1.8.6.230-4.fc9 (2008-6033)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33408

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Jul 1 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-4

- Backported from upstream SVN to fix a segfault issue with Array#fill.

- Mon Jun 30 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-3

- Backported from upstream SVN to fix a segfault issue.
(#452825)

- Backported from upstream SVN to fix an integer overflow in rb_ary_fill.

- Wed Jun 25 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-2

- Fix a segfault issue. (#452809)

- Tue Jun 24 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-1

- New upstream release.

- Security fixes. (#452294).

- CVE-2008-1891: WEBrick CGI source disclosure.

- CVE-2008-2662: Integer overflow in rb_str_buf_append().

- CVE-2008-2663: Integer overflow in rb_ary_store().

- CVE-2008-2664: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format().

- CVE-2008-2725: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice().

- CVE-2008-2726: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice().

- ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: removed.

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 ruby package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453589

http://www.nessus.org/u?76188a54

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33408

File Name: fedora_2008-6033.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2376

BID: 30036

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2008-6033