Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.62803
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0981
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2008:0981. Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks. Vincent Danen reported, that Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0897 did not properly address a denial of service flaw in the WEBrick (Ruby HTTP server toolkit), known as CVE-2008-3656. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to send a specially-crafted HTTP request to a WEBrick server that would cause the server to use excessive CPU time. This update properly addresses this flaw. (CVE-2008-4310) All Ruby users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a correct patch that resolves 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-2008-0981.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.8
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4310 33013 http://secunia.com/advisories/33013 RHSA-2008:0981 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html [oss-security] 20081204 ruby CVE-2008-4310 (Red Hat specific) http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10250 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3656 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html BugTraq ID: 30644 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30644 Bugtraq: 20080831 rPSA-2008-0264-1 ruby (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495884/100/0/threaded Cert/CC Advisory: TA09-133A http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html Debian Security Information: DSA-1651 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1651 Debian Security Information: DSA-1652 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1652 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00299.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00259.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-17.xml https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9682 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020654 http://secunia.com/advisories/31430 http://secunia.com/advisories/31697 http://secunia.com/advisories/32165 http://secunia.com/advisories/32219 http://secunia.com/advisories/32255 http://secunia.com/advisories/32256 http://secunia.com/advisories/32371 http://secunia.com/advisories/33178 http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 https://usn.ubuntu.com/651-1/ http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2334 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 XForce ISS Database: ruby-webrick-dos(44371) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44371
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