Fedora 17 : ruby-1.9.3.286-18.fc17 (2012-16086)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62648

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New version 1.9.3 patchlevel 286 is released.

A potential security flaw was found on the previous ruby that using crafted string might lead to unintentional file creation. This new rpm will fix this issue.

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 ruby package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865940

http://www.nessus.org/u?466b5531

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62648

File Name: fedora_2012-16086.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4522

BID: 56115

FEDORA: 2012-16086