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RHEL 6 : rubygems (RHSA-2014:0207)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119345

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An updated rubygems package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.0.2.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third-party libraries.

It was discovered that the rubygems API validated version strings using an unsafe regular expression. An application making use of this API to process a version string from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a denial of service attack through CPU exhaustion.
(CVE-2013-4287)

Red Hat would like to thank Rubygems upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Damir Sharipov as the original reporter.

All users of Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.0.2 are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected rubygems and / or rubygems-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0207

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4287

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119345

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0207.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2018

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4287

BID: 62281

RHSA: 2014:0207