Debian DLA-209-1 : jruby security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 83142

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

JRuby before 1.6.5.1 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table. Note: This update includes corrections to the original fix for later Debian releases to avoid the issues identified in CVE-2012-5370.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected jruby package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/04/msg00023.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/jruby

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83142

File Name: debian_DLA-209.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jruby, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4838

BID: 51233, 51236