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AlmaLinux 8 : ruby:2.5 (ALSA-2025:7539)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 241322

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:7539 advisory.

 * oniguruma: integer overflow in search_in_range function in regexec.c leads to out-of-bounds read (CVE-2019-19012)
 * rubygem-bundler: unexpected code execution in Gemfiles (CVE-2021-43809)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-7539.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7539

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 241322

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-7539.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2025

Updated: 7/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-43809

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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-2019-19012

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mongo, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rake, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-abrt, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mongo-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-did_you_mean, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-net-telnet, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bson, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bson-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bundler, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-pg, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mysql2-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygems, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bundler-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-openssl, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-pg-doc, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mysql2, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-abrt-doc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19012, CVE-2021-43809

CWE: 125, 190, 88

RHSA: 2025:7539