MiracleLinux 7 : rh-ruby25-ruby-2.5.3-6.el7 (AXSA:2019-3613:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 289679

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:2019-3613:01 advisory.

* ruby: OpenSSL::X509::Name equality check does not work correctly (CVE-2018-16395)
* ruby: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick (CVE-2017-17742)
* ruby: DoS by large request in WEBrick (CVE-2018-8777)
* ruby: Buffer under-read in String#unpack (CVE-2018-8778)
* ruby: Unintentional directory traversal by poisoned NULL byte in Dir (CVE-2018-8780)
* ruby: Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives (CVE-2018-16396)
* rubygems: Path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root (CVE-2018-1000073)
* rubygems: Unsafe Object Deserialization Vulnerability in gem owner allowing arbitrary code execution on specially crafted YAML (CVE-2018-1000074)
* rubygems: Improper verification of signatures in tarball allows to install mis-signed gem (CVE-2018-1000076)
* rubygems: Missing URL validation on spec home attribute allows malicious gem to set an invalid homepage URL (CVE-2018-1000077)
* rubygems: XSS vulnerability in homepage attribute when displayed via gem server (CVE-2018-1000078)
* rubygems: Path traversal issue during gem installation allows to write to arbitrary filesystem locations (CVE-2018-1000079)
* ruby: Unintentional file and directory creation with directory traversal in tempfile and tmpdir (CVE-2018-6914)
* ruby: Unintentional socket creation by poisoned NULL byte in UNIXServer and UNIXSocket (CVE-2018-8779)
* rubygems: Infinite loop vulnerability due to negative size in tar header causes Denial of Service (CVE-2018-1000075)

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: 289679

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2019-3613.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Miracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8780

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16395

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-ruby, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-did_you_mean, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-net-telnet, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygems, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-openssl, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-xmlrpc, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-ruby25-ruby-irb

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17742, CVE-2018-1000073, CVE-2018-1000074, CVE-2018-1000075, CVE-2018-1000076, CVE-2018-1000077, CVE-2018-1000078, CVE-2018-1000079, CVE-2018-16395, CVE-2018-16396, CVE-2018-6914, CVE-2018-8777, CVE-2018-8778, CVE-2018-8779, CVE-2018-8780

Detections

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