Oracle Linux 6 : ruby (ELSA-2013-0612)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68782

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2013:0612 :

Updated ruby packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links 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.

It was discovered that Ruby's REXML library did not properly restrict XML entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by tricking a Ruby application using REXML to read text nodes from specially crafted XML content, which will result in REXML consuming large amounts of system memory. (CVE-2013-1821)

It was found that the RHSA-2011:0910 update did not correctly fix the CVE-2011-1005 issue, a flaw in the method for translating an exception message into a string in the Exception class. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass safe level 4 restrictions, allowing untrusted (tainted) code to modify arbitrary, trusted (untainted) strings, which safe level 4 restrictions would otherwise prevent. (CVE-2012-4481)

The CVE-2012-4481 issue was discovered by Vit Ondruch of Red Hat.

All users of Ruby are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

Solution

Update the affected ruby packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68782

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0612.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-ri, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-static, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-tcltk, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4481, CVE-2013-1821

BID: 55813, 58141

RHSA: 2013:0612

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