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Fedora Core 6 : ruby-1.8.5-4.fc6 (2006-1109)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24038

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Oct 27 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.5-4

 - security fix release.

 - ruby-1.8.5-cgi-CVE-2006-5467.patch: fix a CGI multipart parsing bug that causes the denial of service. (#212396)

 - Sun Oct 1 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 1.8.5-3

 - rebuilt for unwind info generation, broken in gcc-4.1.1-21

 - Tue Sep 26 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.5-2

 - fixed rbconfig.rb to refer to DESTDIR for sitearchdir.
 (#207311)

 - Mon Aug 28 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.5-1

 - New upstream release.

 - removed the unnecessary patches :

 - ruby-1.8.4-no-eaccess.patch

 - ruby-1.8.4-64bit-pack.patch

 - ruby-1.8.4-fix-insecure-dir-operation.patch

 - ruby-1.8.4-fix-insecure-regexp-modification.patch

 - ruby-1.8.4-fix-alias-safe-level.patch

 - build with --enable-pthread except on ppc.

 - ruby-1.8.5-hash-memory-leak.patch: backported from CVS to fix a memory leak on Hash. [ruby-talk:211233]

 - Mon Aug 7 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.4-12

 - owns sitearchdir. (#201208)

 - Thu Jul 20 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.4-11

 - security fixes [CVE-2006-3694]

 - ruby-1.8.4-fix-insecure-dir-operation.patch :

 - ruby-1.8.4-fix-insecure-regexp-modification.patch:
 fixed the insecure operations in the certain safe-level restrictions. (#199538)

 - ruby-1.8.4-fix-alias-safe-level.patch: fixed to not bypass the certain safe-level restrictions. (#199543)

 - Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 1.8.4-10.fc6.1

 - rebuild

 - Mon Jun 19 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.4-10

 - fixed the wrong file list again. moved tcltk library into ruby-tcltk. (#195872)

 - Thu Jun 8 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.4-8

 - ruby-deprecated-sitelib-search-path.patch: correct the order of search path.

 - Wed Jun 7 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.4-7

 - exclude ppc64 to make ruby-mode package. right now emacs.ppc64 isn't provided and buildsys became much stricter.

 - ruby-deprecated-sitelib-search-path.patch: applied to add more search path for backward compatibility.

 - added byacc to BuildReq. (#194161)

 - Wed May 17 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.4-6

 - ruby-deprecated-search-path.patch: added the deprecated installation paths to the search path for the backward compatibility.

 - added a Provides: ruby(abi) to ruby-libs.

 - ruby-1.8.4-64bit-pack.patch: backport patch from upstream to fix unpack('l') not working on 64bit arch and integer overflow on template 'w'. (#189350)

 - updated License tag to be more comfortable, and with a pointer to get more details, like Python package does.
 (#179933)

 - clean up.

[plus 360 lines in the Changelog]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?584a7c5b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24038

File Name: fedora_2006-1109.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-docs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-mode, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-ri, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-tcltk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2006

Reference Information

BID: 20777

FEDORA: 2006-1109