The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-2587 advisory.

    ruby     [2.5.9-107]
    - Update to Ruby 2.5.9.
      * Remove Patch20: ruby-2.6.0-rdoc-6.0.1-fix-template-typo.patch; subsumed       Resolves: rhbz#1952626
    - Resolv::DNS: timeouts if multiple IPv6 name servers are given and address       contains leading zero       Resolves: rhbz#1955010

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The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0582 advisory.

    Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text     files and to perform system management tasks.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rubygem-bundler: Dependencies of gems with explicit source may be installed from a different source     (CVE-2020-36327)

    * ruby: NUL injection vulnerability of File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch? (CVE-2019-15845)

    * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of WEBrick's Digest authentication     (CVE-2019-16201)

    * ruby: Code injection via command argument of Shell#test / Shell#[] (CVE-2019-16255)

    * rubygem-json: Unsafe object creation vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2020-10663)

    * ruby: BasicSocket#read_nonblock method leads to information disclosure (CVE-2020-10933)

    * ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613)

    * ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965)

    * rubygem-rdoc: Command injection vulnerability in RDoc (CVE-2021-31799)

    * ruby: FTP PASV command response can cause Net::FTP to connect to arbitrary host (CVE-2021-31810)

    * ruby: StartTLS stripping vulnerability in Net::IMAP (CVE-2021-32066)

    * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817)

    * ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819)

    * ruby: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick (CVE-2019-16254)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2021:2588 advisory.

    * rubygem-bundler: Insecure permissions on directory in /tmp/ allows for execution of malicious code     (CVE-2019-3881)

    * ruby: NUL injection vulnerability of File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch? (CVE-2019-15845)

    * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of WEBrick's Digest authentication     (CVE-2019-16201)

    * ruby: Code injection via command argument of Shell#test / Shell#[] (CVE-2019-16255)

    * rubygem-json: Unsafe object creation vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2020-10663)

    * ruby: BasicSocket#read_nonblock method leads to information disclosure (CVE-2020-10933)

    * ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613)

    * ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965)

    * ruby: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick (CVE-2019-16254)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

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This update for ruby2.5 toversion 2.5.7 fixes the following issues :

ruby 2.5 was updated to version 2.5.7

CVE-2020-8130: Fixed a command injection in intree copy of rake (bsc#1164804).

CVE-2019-16255: Fixed a code injection vulnerability of Shell#[] and Shell#test (bsc#1152990).

CVE-2019-16254: Fixed am HTTP response splitting in WEBrick (bsc#1152992).

CVE-2019-15845: Fixed a null injection vulnerability of File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch? (bsc#1152994).

CVE-2019-16201: Fixed a regular expression denial of service of WEBrick Digest access authentication (bsc#1152995).

CVE-2012-6708: Fixed an XSS in JQuery

CVE-2015-9251: Fixed an XSS in JQuery

Fixed unit tests (bsc#1140844)

Removed some unneeded test files (bsc#1162396).

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This update for ruby2.1 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2015-9096: Fixed an SMTP command injection via CRLFsequences in a RCPT TO or MAIL FROM command (bsc#1043983).

CVE-2016-7798: Fixed an IV Reuse in GCM Mode (bsc#1055265).

CVE-2017-0898: Fixed a buffer underrun vulnerability in Kernel.sprintf (bsc#1058755).

CVE-2017-0899: Fixed an issue with malicious gem specifications, insufficient sanitation when printing gem specifications could have included terminal characters (bsc#1056286).

CVE-2017-0900: Fixed an issue with malicious gem specifications, the query command could have led to a denial of service attack against clients (bsc#1056286).

CVE-2017-0901: Fixed an issue with malicious gem specifications, potentially overwriting arbitrary files on the client system (bsc#1056286).

CVE-2017-0902: Fixed an issue with malicious gem specifications, that could have enabled MITM attacks against clients (bsc#1056286).

CVE-2017-0903: Fixed an unsafe object deserialization vulnerability (bsc#1062452).

CVE-2017-9228: Fixed a heap out-of-bounds write in bitset_set_range() during regex compilation (bsc#1069607).

CVE-2017-9229: Fixed an invalid pointer dereference in left_adjust_char_head() in oniguruma (bsc#1069632).

CVE-2017-10784: Fixed an escape sequence injection vulnerability in the Basic authentication of WEBrick (bsc#1058754).

CVE-2017-14033: Fixed a buffer underrun vulnerability in OpenSSL ASN1 decode (bsc#1058757).

CVE-2017-14064: Fixed an arbitrary memory exposure during a JSON.generate call (bsc#1056782).

CVE-2017-17405: Fixed a command injection vulnerability in Net::FTP (bsc#1073002).

CVE-2017-17742: Fixed an HTTP response splitting issue in WEBrick (bsc#1087434).

CVE-2017-17790: Fixed a command injection in lib/resolv.rb:lazy_initialize() (bsc#1078782).

CVE-2018-6914: Fixed an unintentional file and directory creation with directory traversal in tempfile and tmpdir (bsc#1087441).

CVE-2018-8777: Fixed a potential DoS caused by large requests in WEBrick (bsc#1087436).

CVE-2018-8778: Fixed a buffer under-read in String#unpack (bsc#1087433).

CVE-2018-8779: Fixed an unintentional socket creation by poisoned NUL byte in UNIXServer and UNIXSocket (bsc#1087440).

CVE-2018-8780: Fixed an unintentional directory traversal by poisoned NUL byte in Dir (bsc#1087437).

CVE-2018-16395: Fixed an issue with OpenSSL::X509::Name equality checking (bsc#1112530).

CVE-2018-16396: Fixed an issue with tainted string handling, where the flag was not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives (bsc#1112532).

CVE-2018-1000073: Fixed a path traversal issue (bsc#1082007).

CVE-2018-1000074: Fixed an unsafe object deserialization vulnerability in gem owner, allowing arbitrary code execution with specially crafted YAML (bsc#1082008).

CVE-2018-1000075: Fixed an infinite loop vulnerability due to negative size in tar header causes Denial of Service (bsc#1082014).

CVE-2018-1000076: Fixed an improper verification of signatures in tarballs (bsc#1082009).

CVE-2018-1000077: Fixed an improper URL validation in the homepage attribute of ruby gems (bsc#1082010).

CVE-2018-1000078: Fixed a XSS vulnerability in the homepage attribute when displayed via gem server (bsc#1082011).

CVE-2018-1000079: Fixed a path traversal issue during gem installation allows to write to arbitrary filesystem locations (bsc#1082058).

CVE-2019-8320: Fixed a directory traversal issue when decompressing tar files (bsc#1130627).

CVE-2019-8321: Fixed an escape sequence injection vulnerability in verbose (bsc#1130623).

CVE-2019-8322: Fixed an escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner (bsc#1130622).

CVE-2019-8323: Fixed an escape sequence injection vulnerability in API response handling (bsc#1130620).

CVE-2019-8324: Fixed an issue with malicious gems that may have led to arbitrary code execution (bsc#1130617).

CVE-2019-8325: Fixed an escape sequence injection vulnerability in errors (bsc#1130611).

CVE-2019-15845: Fixed a NUL injection vulnerability in File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch? (bsc#1152994).

CVE-2019-16201: Fixed a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in WEBrick's digest access authentication (bsc#1152995).

CVE-2019-16254: Fixed an HTTP response splitting vulnerability in WEBrick (bsc#1152992).

CVE-2019-16255: Fixed a code injection vulnerability in Shell#[] and Shell#test (bsc#1152990).

CVE-2020-10663: Fixed an unsafe object creation vulnerability in JSON (bsc#1171517).

Non-security issue fixed :

Add conflicts to libruby to make sure ruby and ruby-stdlib are also updated when libruby is updated (bsc#1048072).

Also yast2-ruby-bindings on SLES 12 SP2 LTSS was updated to handle the updated ruby interpreter. (bsc#1172275)

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
151284	Oracle Linux 8 : ruby:2.5 (ELSA-2021-2587)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/2/2021	11/1/2024	high
158215	RHEL 8 : ruby:2.6 (RHSA-2022:0582)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2/22/2022	11/7/2024	high
179413	AlmaLinux 8 : ruby:2.6 (ALSA-2021:2588)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	8/7/2023	1/13/2025	high
134824	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : Recommended update for ruby2.5 (SUSE-SU-2020:0737-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/23/2020	5/18/2022	high
137599	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ruby2.1 (SUSE-SU-2020:1570-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/18/2020	5/13/2022	critical

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