MiracleLinux 7 : ruby-2.0.0.648-39.0.4.el7.AXS7 (AXSA:2025-10964:04)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 283434

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2025-10964:04 advisory.

* CVE-2016-2337: Fix type confusion in _cancel_eval Ruby's TclTkIp class method to prevent arbitrary code execution
* CVE-2017-9224: Fix stack out-of-bounds read in match_at() during regular expression searching
* CVE-2017-9227: Fix stack out-of-bounds read in mbc_enc_len() and invalid pointer dereference in forward_search_range()
* CVE-2017-9228: Fix heap out-of-bounds write in bitset_set_range() and parse_char_class() by initializing critical local variable CVE(s):
CVE-2017-9227 CVE-2017-9228 CVE-2016-2337 CVE-2017-9224

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 283434

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2025-10964.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Miracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/13/2026

Updated: 1/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9228

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ruby-irb, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ruby-libs

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2337, CVE-2017-9224, CVE-2017-9227, CVE-2017-9228

Detections

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