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VPR Score: 7.4
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the Ruby 1.9 interpretor.
CVE-2017-0898
Buffer underrun vulnerability in Kernel.sprintf
CVE-2017-0899
ANSI escape sequence vulnerability
CVE-2017-0900
DOS vulernerability in the query command
CVE-2017-0901
gem installer allows a malicious gem to overwrite arbitrary files
CVE-2017-10784
Escape sequence injection vulnerability in the Basic authentication of WEBrick
CVE-2017-14033
Buffer underrun vulnerability in OpenSSL ASN1 decode
CVE-2017-14064
Heap exposure vulnerability in generating JSON
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u6.
We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.9.1 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.