Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.54486
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:543
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2005:543. Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. A bug was found in the way Ruby launched an XMLRPC server. If an XMLRPC server is launched in a certain way, it becomes possible for a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands within the XMLRPC server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-1992 to this issue. Users of Ruby should update to these erratum packages, which contain a backported patch and are not vulnerable to this issue. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-543.html 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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