Executive Summary

Summary
Title RubyGems: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201710-01 First vendor Publication 2017-10-08
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-10-08
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in RubyGems, the worst of which allows execution of arbitrary code.

Background

RubyGems is a sophisticated package manager for Ruby.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RubyGems. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing a user to install a specially crafted gem, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All RubyGems users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.6.13"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-0899 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-0899
[ 2 ] CVE-2017-0900 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-0900
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-0901 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-0901
[ 4 ] CVE-2017-0902 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-0902

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-01

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201710-01.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
25 % CWE-346 Origin Validation Error
25 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 100
Os 3
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 2
Os 3
Os 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-09-18 Name : The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1248.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1421.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-20 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1066.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-20 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1067.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-12 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-0378.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-81cf93b7c2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-27 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-915.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-09 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201710-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-06 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3439-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-03 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-906.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1112.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1114.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-e136d63c99.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-19 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2017-261-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-20214ad330.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-06 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3966.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-10-10 13:24:32
  • Multiple Updates
2017-10-08 17:22:22
  • First insertion