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Fedora 16 : rubygems-1.8.11-3.fc16.1 (2012-6409)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58933

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

With this new rubygems, HTTPS connection no longer redirects to HTTP.
Also now rubygems verify SSL connection.

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 rubygems package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814718

http://www.nessus.org/u?33eb3ee6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58933

File Name: fedora_2012-6409.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/1/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygems, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2125, CVE-2012-2126

BID: 53174

FEDORA: 2012-6409