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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704332
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4332-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ruby2.3' package(s) announced via the DSA-4332-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ruby2.3' package(s) announced via the DSA-4332-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the Ruby language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2018-16395

Tyler Eckstein reported that the equality check of OpenSSL::X509::Name could return true for non-equal objects. If a malicious X.509 certificate is passed to compare with an existing certificate, there is a possibility to be judged incorrectly that they are equal.

CVE-2018-16396

Chris Seaton discovered that tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.3.3-1+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby2.3 packages.

For the detailed security status of ruby2.3 please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references]

Affected Software/OS:
'ruby2.3' package(s) on Debian 9.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-16395
Debian Security Information: DSA-4332 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4332
https://hackerone.com/reports/387250
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00020.html
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2018:3729
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2018:3730
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2018:3731
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2018:3738
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3738
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2019:1948
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1948
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2019:2565
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2565
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042105
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1771 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3808-1/
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-16396
https://hackerone.com/reports/385070
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2019:2028
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042106
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