Debian DLA-1352-1 : jruby security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 109091

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An unsafe object deserialization vulnerability was found in jruby, a 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby. An attacker can use this flaw to run arbitrary code when gem owner is run on a specially crafted YAML file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.6-5+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your jruby packages.

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/2018/04/msg00017.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/jruby

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109091

File Name: debian_DLA-1352.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jruby, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000074