Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56638
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:079 (ruby)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to ruby announced via advisory MDKSA-2006:079. A vulnerability in how ruby's HTTP module uses blocking sockets was reported by Yukihiro Matsumoto. By sending large amounts of data to a server application using this module, a remote attacker could exploit it to render the application unusable and not respond to other client requests. The updated packages have been patched to fix this problem. Affected: 10.2, 2006.0, Corporate 3.0 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=MDKSA-2006:079 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 5.0
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 17645 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-1931 1015978 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015978 16904 http://secunia.com/advisories/16904 17645 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17645 19772 http://secunia.com/advisories/19772 19804 http://secunia.com/advisories/19804 20024 http://secunia.com/advisories/20024 20064 http://secunia.com/advisories/20064 20457 http://secunia.com/advisories/20457 21657 http://secunia.com/advisories/21657 24972 http://www.osvdb.org/24972 DSA-1157 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1157 GLSA-200605-11 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-11.xml MDKSA-2006:079 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:079 RHSA-2006:0427 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0427.html SUSE-SR:2006:012 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html USN-273-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/273-1/ ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-webrick-dos-1.patch ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-xmlrpc-dos-1.patch http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189540 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11100 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11100 ruby-socket-dos(26102) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26102
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