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Fedora 7 : ruby-1.8.6.110-1.fc7 (2007-2406)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27772

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Oct 4 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.110-1

 - New upstream release.

 - ruby-r12567.patch: removed.

 - ruby-1.8.6-CVE-2007-5162.patch: security fix for Net::HTTP that is insufficient verification of SSL certificate. (#313791)

 - Wed Jul 25 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.36-3

 - ruby-r12567.patch: backport patch from upstream svn to get rid of the unnecessary declarations. (#245446)

 - Fri Jul 20 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.8.6.36-2

 - New upstream release.

 - Fix Etc::getgrgid to get the correct gid as requested.
 (#236647)

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=313791

http://www.nessus.org/u?5b2c624a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27772

File Name: fedora_2007-2406.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5162

BID: 25847

CWE: 287

FEDORA: 2007-2406