Fedora 18 : rubygems-1.8.25-8.fc18 (2013-17649)

low Nessus Plugin ID 70297

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Previously a security flow was found on rubygems for validating versions with a regular expression which is vulnerable to denial of service due to backtracking. Although this was thought to be fixed in the previous rubygems, the fix was found imcomplete and the imcompleteness is now assigned as CVE-2013-4363.

A packaging bug was found that a directory was not properly owned.

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 rubygems package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 70297

File Name: fedora_2013-17649.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/4/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygems, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2013

Reference Information

BID: 62442

FEDORA: 2013-17649

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