Fedora Core 4 : ruby-1.8.4-3.fc4 (2006-842)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24155

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Jul 20 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.4-3

- 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)

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?e1431471

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24155

File Name: fedora_2006-842.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:irb, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rdoc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ri, 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-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-mode, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-tcltk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-842