Executive Summary

Summary
Title rh-ruby22-ruby security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2015:1657 First vendor Publication 2015-08-24
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2015-08-24
Severity (Vendor) Important Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

Updated rh-ruby22-ruby packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Software Collections 2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

3. Description:

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

A flaw was found in a way rubygems verified the API endpoint hostname retrieved through a DNS SRV record. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to force a client to download content from an untrusted domain. (CVE-2015-3900)

All rh-ruby22-ruby users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. All running instances of Ruby need to be restarted for this update to take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1236116 - CVE-2015-3900 rubygems: DNS hijacking vulnerability in api_endpoint()

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1657.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-254 Security Features

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 12
Application 27
Os 1
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-05-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1050.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1051.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-527.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-21 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1067-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-13157.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-12501.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-12574.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-23 Name : A web application on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : puppet_enterprise_cve_2015-4100.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-547.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-548.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-549.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-18 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_a0089e18fc9e11e4bc58001e67150279.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-08-24 21:27:40
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