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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53971
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-146-1 (ruby1.8)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to ruby1.8
announced via advisory USN-146-1.

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected: libxmlrpc-ruby1.8, ruby1.8

Nobuhiro IMAI discovered that the changed default value of the
Module#public_instance_methods() method broke the security protection
of XMLRPC server handlers. A remote attacker could exploit this to
execute arbitrary commands on an XMLRPC server.

Solution:
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 1.8.1+1.8.2pre2-3ubuntu0.2 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or
1.8.1+1.8.2pre4-1ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04). In general, a standard
system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes
however,
if you run custom XMLRPC servers implemented in Ruby, you have to
restart them.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-146-1

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1992
14016
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14016
16920
http://secunia.com/advisories/16920/
APPLE-SA-2005-09-22
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html
DSA-748
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-748
ESB-2005.0732
http://www.auscert.org.au/5509
P-312
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml
RHSA-2005:543
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-543.html
SUSE-SR:2005:018
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
VU#684913
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684913
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/5237
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315064
http://www2.ruby-lang.org/en/20050701.html
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10819
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10819
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