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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61203
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2008-5664 (ruby)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to ruby
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-5664.

ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 24 2008 Akira TAGOH - 1.8.6.230-1
- New upstream release.
- Security fixes. (#452294).
- CVE-2008-1891: WEBrick CGI source disclosure.
- CVE-2008-2662: Integer overflow in rb_str_buf_append().
- CVE-2008-2663: Integer overflow in rb_ary_store().
- CVE-2008-2664: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format().
- CVE-2008-2725: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice().
- CVE-2008-2726: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice().
- ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: removed.

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #450825 - CVE-2008-2663 ruby: Integer overflows in rb_ary_store()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450825
[ 2 ] Bug #443829 - CVE-2008-1891 ruby: WEBrick CGI source disclosure
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443829
[ 3 ] Bug #451821 - CVE-2008-2725 ruby: integer overflow in rb_ary_splice() (ruby-1.8.x) - REALLOC_N
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451821
[ 4 ] Bug #450821 - CVE-2008-2662 ruby: Integer overflows in rb_str_buf_append()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450821
[ 5 ] Bug #451828 - CVE-2008-2726 ruby: integer overflow in rb_ary_splice() (ruby-1.8.x) - beg + rlen
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451828
[ 6 ] Bug #450834 - CVE-2008-2664 ruby: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450834

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update ruby' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-5664

Risk factor : Critical

CVSS Score:
10.0

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-1891
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00937.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:140
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29794
http://secunia.com/advisories/30831
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:017 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1245/references
XForce ISS Database: ruby-webrick-cgi-info-disclosure(41824)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41824
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2662
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html
BugTraq ID: 29903
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29903
Bugtraq: 20080626 rPSA-2008-0206-1 ruby (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493688/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1612 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1612
Debian Security Information: DSA-1618 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1618
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-17.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:142
http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/06/23/ruby-186-p230187-broke-your-app-ruby-enterprise-edition-to-the-rescue/
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/6/21/multiple-ruby-security-vulnerabilities
http://www.matasano.com/log/1070/updates-on-drew-yaos-terrible-ruby-vulnerabilities/
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/157034
http://www.rubyinside.com/june-2008-ruby-security-vulnerabilities-927.html
http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/the_big_ruby_vulnerabilities.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11601
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0561.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020347
http://secunia.com/advisories/30802
http://secunia.com/advisories/30867
http://secunia.com/advisories/30875
http://secunia.com/advisories/30894
http://secunia.com/advisories/31062
http://secunia.com/advisories/31181
http://secunia.com/advisories/31256
http://secunia.com/advisories/33178
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.429562
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-621-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1907/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1981/references
XForce ISS Database: ruby-rbstrbufappend-code-execution(43345)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43345
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2663
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10524
http://secunia.com/advisories/31090
XForce ISS Database: ruby-rbarystore-code-execution(43346)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43346
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2664
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9646
XForce ISS Database: ruby-rbstrformat-code-execution(43348)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43348
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2725
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-2727
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-security-commits/2008-June/msg00005.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9606
XForce ISS Database: ruby-rbarysplice-code-execution(43350)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43350
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2726
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9959
XForce ISS Database: ruby-rbarysplice-begrlen-code-execution(43351)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43351
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-5162
BugTraq ID: 25847
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25847
Bugtraq: 20070927 Ruby Net::HTTPS library does not validate server certificate CN (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480987/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20071112 FLEA-2007-0068-1 ruby (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483577/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1410 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1410
Debian Security Information: DSA-1411 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1411
Debian Security Information: DSA-1412 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1412
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00097.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00391.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00087.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:029
http://www.isecpartners.com/advisories/2007-006-rubyssl.txt
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=313791
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10738
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0965.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26985
http://secunia.com/advisories/27044
http://secunia.com/advisories/27432
http://secunia.com/advisories/27576
http://secunia.com/advisories/27673
http://secunia.com/advisories/27756
http://secunia.com/advisories/27764
http://secunia.com/advisories/27769
http://secunia.com/advisories/27818
http://secunia.com/advisories/28645
http://secunia.com/advisories/29556
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3180
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:024 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-596-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3340
XForce ISS Database: ruby-nethttps-mitm(36861)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36861
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