Debian DLA-549-1 : ruby-eventmachine security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 92324

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

EventMachine, a Ruby network engine could be crashed by opening a high number of parallel connections (>= 1024) towards a server using the EventMachine engine. The crash happens due to the file descriptors overwriting the stack.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.10-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-eventmachine packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92324

File Name: debian_DLA-549.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/18/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libeventmachine-ruby, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libeventmachine-ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libeventmachine-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-eventmachine, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2016

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