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Fedora 25 : ruby (2017-f318871e3b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 102722

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to Ruby 2.3.4.

 - Fix SMTP command injection via CRLF sequences in RCPT TO or MAIL FROM commands in Net::SMTP (CVE-2015-9096).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f318871e3b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 102722

File Name: fedora_2017-f318871e3b.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2017

Updated: 11/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-9096

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby

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: 8/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-9096