Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55569
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:799
Summary:	Redhat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:799
Description:	The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2005:799. Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. A bug was found in the way ruby handles eval statements. It is possible for a malicious script to call eval in such a way that can allow the bypass of certain safe-level restrictions. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-2337 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-2005-799.html Risk factor : High
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 17951 BugTraq ID: 14909 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2337 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html Debian Security Information: DSA-860 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-860 Debian Security Information: DSA-862 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-862 Debian Security Information: DSA-864 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-864 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-05.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:191 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-799.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:005 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-195-1 Cert/CC Advisory: TA06-132A http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#160012 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/160012 http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2362914675/index.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14909 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10564 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779 http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Sep/1014948.html http://secunia.com/advisories/16904 http://secunia.com/advisories/17094 http://secunia.com/advisories/17129 http://secunia.com/advisories/17147 http://secunia.com/advisories/17285 http://secunia.com/advisories/19130 http://secunia.com/advisories/17098 http://secunia.com/advisories/20077 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/59 XForce ISS Database: ruby-eval-security-bypass(22360) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/22360
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