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CentOS 4 : ruby (CESA-2006:0427)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21995

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated ruby packages that fix a denial of service issue are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming.

A bug was found in the way Ruby creates its xmlrpc and http servers.
The servers use a non blocking socket, which enables a remote user to cause a denial of service condition if they are able to transmit a large volume of information from the network server. (CVE-2006-1931)

Users of Ruby should update to these erratum packages, which contain a backported patch and are not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution

Update the affected ruby packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?30ff2d37

http://www.nessus.org/u?6ec3d4b4

http://www.nessus.org/u?b3625a04

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21995

File Name: centos_RHSA-2006-0427.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/5/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:irb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-mode, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-tcltk

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1931

BID: 17645

RHSA: 2006:0427