Fedora 19 : ruby-2.0.0.247-14.fc19 (2013-12663)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68896

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to Ruby 2.0.0-p247 (rhbz#979605).

- Fix RubyGems search paths when building gems with native extension.

- Make symlinks for psych gem to ruby stdlib dirs.

- Add support for ABRT autoloading.

- Better support for build without configuration (rhbz#977941).

- Use system-wide cert.pem.

- Fixes multilib conlicts of .gemspec files.

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 ruby package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921650

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977941

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979133

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979295

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979605

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=983769

http://www.nessus.org/u?37b2b501

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68896

File Name: fedora_2013-12663.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4073

BID: 60843

FEDORA: 2013-12663