CentOS 7 : ruby (CESA-2018:3738)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119665

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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

Security Fix(es) :

* ruby: OpenSSL::X509::Name equality check does not work correctly (CVE-2018-16395)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected ruby packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 119665

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-3738.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 12/14/2018

Updated: 4/8/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16395

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-tcltk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygems-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16395

RHSA: 2018:3738

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