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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66718
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:017 (ruby)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to ruby
announced via advisory MDVSA-2010:017.

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in ruby:

WEBrick 1.3.1 in Ruby 1.8.6 through patchlevel 383, 1.8.7 through
patchlevel 248, 1.8.8dev, 1.9.1 through patchlevel 376, and 1.9.2dev
writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters,
which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title,
or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an
HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator
(CVE-2009-4492).

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0
customers.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Affected: 2008.0, 2009.0, 2009.1, 2010.0, Corporate 4.0,
Enterprise Server 5.0


Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2010:017

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4492
BugTraq ID: 37710
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37710
Bugtraq: 20100110 Nginx, Varnish, Cherokee, thttpd, mini-httpd, WEBrick, Orion, AOLserver, Yaws and Boa log escape sequence injection (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0908.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0909.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023429
http://secunia.com/advisories/37949
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0089
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