RHEL 6 : ruby193-ruby (RHSA-2013:1137)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119342

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated ruby193-ruby packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.2.2.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks.

A flaw was found in Ruby's SSL client's hostname identity check when handling certificates that contain hostnames with NULL bytes. An attacker could potentially exploit this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to spoof SSL servers. Note that to exploit this issue, an attacker would need to obtain a carefully-crafted certificate signed by an authority that the client trusts.
(CVE-2013-4073)

All users of Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.2.2 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/06/27/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1137

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4073

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119342

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-1137.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2018

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-ruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-ruby-tcltk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygems-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4073

RHSA: 2013:1137