Fedora 19 : rubygem-actionmailer-3.2.13-2.fc19 / rubygem-actionpack-3.2.13-4.fc19 / etc (2014-0970)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72123

Synopsis

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

Description

Avoid potential format string vulnerabilities where user-provided data is interpolated into the log message before String#% is called.
(CVE-2013-4389).

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 rubygem-actionmailer, rubygem-actionpack and / or rubygem-activesupport packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1013913

http://www.nessus.org/u?2a496d55

http://www.nessus.org/u?4324bec9

http://www.nessus.org/u?49127912

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72123

File Name: fedora_2014-0970.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-actionmailer, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-actionpack, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-activesupport, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4389

BID: 63179

FEDORA: 2014-0970