Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.870449
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Update for ruby RHSA-2011:0908-01
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'ruby'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'ruby' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks. A flaw was found in the way large amounts of memory were allocated on 64-bit systems when using the BigDecimal class. A context-dependent attacker could use this flaw to cause memory corruption, causing a Ruby application that uses the BigDecimal class to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. This issue did not affect 32-bit systems. (CVE-2011-0188) It was found that WEBrick (the Ruby HTTP server toolkit) did not filter terminal escape sequences from its log files. A remote attacker could use specially-crafted HTTP requests to inject terminal escape sequences into the WEBrick log files. If a victim viewed the log files with a terminal emulator, it could result in control characters being executed with the privileges of that user. (CVE-2009-4492) A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way WEBrick displayed error pages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack against victims by tricking them into visiting a specially-crafted URL. (CVE-2010-0541) A flaw was found in the method for translating an exception message into a string in the Exception class. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass safe level 4 restrictions, allowing untrusted (tainted) code to modify arbitrary, trusted (untainted) strings, which safe level 4 restrictions would otherwise prevent. (CVE-2011-1005) Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of Apple Product Security for reporting the CVE-2011-0188 and CVE-2010-0541 issues. All Ruby users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Affected Software/OS: ruby on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. 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-2009-4492 BugTraq ID: 37710 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37710 Bugtraq: 20100110 Nginx, Varnish, Cherokee, thttpd, mini-httpd, WEBrick, Orion, AOLserver, Yaws and Boa log escape sequence injection (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0908.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0909.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1023429 http://secunia.com/advisories/37949 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0089 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-0541 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html BugTraq ID: 40871 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40871 BugTraq ID: 40895 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40895 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:097 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:098 http://secunia.com/advisories/40220 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-0188 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0910.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025236 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1005 43420 http://secunia.com/advisories/43420 43573 http://secunia.com/advisories/43573 46458 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46458 70957 http://osvdb.org/70957 ADV-2011-0539 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0539 APPLE-SA-2012-05-09-1 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html FEDORA-2011-1876 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054422.html FEDORA-2011-1913 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054436.html MDVSA-2011:097 MDVSA-2011:098 RHSA-2011:0908 RHSA-2011:0909 RHSA-2011:0910 [oss-security] 20110221 CVE request: ruby: FileUtils is vulnerable to symlink race attacks + Exception methods can bypass $SAFE http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/21/2 [oss-security] 20110221 Re: CVE request: ruby: FileUtils is vulnerable to symlink race attacks + Exception methods can bypass $SAFE http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/21/5 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/02/18/exception-methods-can-bypass-safe/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678920
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