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VPR Score: 5.9
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
Description
Some vulnerabilities were found in the Ruby 1.8 package that affects the LTS distribution.
CVE-2017-0898
Buffer underrun vulnerability in Kernel.sprintf
CVE-2017-10784
Escape sequence injection vulnerability in the Basic authentication of WEBrick
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u4.
We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.8 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.