SUSE SLED15: libruby2_5-2_5 / ruby2.5 / ruby2.5-devel / ruby2.5-devel-extra / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:4176-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183864

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4176-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-28755: Fixed a ReDoS vulnerability in URI. (bsc#1209891)
- CVE-2023-28756: Fixed an expensive regexp in the RFC2822 time parser. (bsc#1209967)
- CVE-2021-41817: Fixed a Regular Expression Denial of Service Vulnerability of Date Parsing Methods.
(bsc#1193035)
- CVE-2021-33621: Fixed a HTTP response splitting vulnerability in CGI gem. (bsc#1205726)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 183864

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4176-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41817

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33621

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-stdlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libruby2_5-2_5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33621, CVE-2021-41817, CVE-2023-28755, CVE-2023-28756

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4176-1

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