Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53279
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-586-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ruby' package(s) announced via the DSA-586-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ruby' package(s) announced via the DSA-586-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: The upstream developers of Ruby have corrected a problem in the CGI module for this language. Specially crafted requests could cause an infinite loop and thus cause the program to eat up cpu cycles. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.7-3woody4. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.8-12 of ruby1.6 and in version 1.8.1+1.8.2pre2-4 of ruby1.8. We recommend that you upgrade your ruby packages. Affected Software/OS: 'ruby' package(s) on Debian 3.0. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0983 BugTraq ID: 11618 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11618 Debian Security Information: DSA-586 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-586 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:128 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10268 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-635.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/20-1/ XForce ISS Database: ruby-cgi-dos(17985) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17985
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