Executive Summary

Summary
Title Ruby vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-1603-1 First vendor Publication 2012-10-10
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2012-10-10
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: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

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 11.10 - Ubuntu 11.04 - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Ruby could allow excessive access in untrusted programs.

Software Description: - ruby1.8: Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby 1.8

Details:

Shugo Maedo and Vit Ondruch discovered that Ruby incorrectly allowed untainted strings to be modified in protective safe levels. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions. (CVE-2012-4466, CVE-2012-4481)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libruby1.8 1.8.7.352-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
libruby1.8 1.8.7.352-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 11.04:
libruby1.8 1.8.7.302-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
libruby1.8 1.8.7.249-2ubuntu0.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1603-1
CVE-2012-4466, CVE-2012-4481

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby1.8/1.8.7.352-2ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby1.8/1.8.7.352-2ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby1.8/1.8.7.302-2ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby1.8/1.8.7.249-2ubuntu0.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1603-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17422
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17422
Title: USN-1602-1 -- ruby1.9.1 vulnerabilities
Description: Ruby could allow excessive access in untrusted programs.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1602-1
CVE-2012-4464
CVE-2012-4466
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): ruby1.9.1
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17844
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17844
Title: USN-1603-2 -- ruby1.8 vulnerabilities
Description: Ruby could allow excessive access in untrusted programs.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1603-2
CVE-2012-4466
CVE-2012-4481
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
Product(s): ruby1.8
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17988
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17988
Title: USN-1603-1 -- ruby1.8 vulnerabilities
Description: Ruby could allow excessive access in untrusted programs.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1603-1
CVE-2012-4466
CVE-2012-4481
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): ruby1.8
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 34

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-11-26 Name : FreeBSD Ports: ruby
File : nvt/freebsd_ruby15.nasl
2012-11-19 Name : Fedora Update for ruby FEDORA-2012-18017
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_18017_ruby_fc17.nasl
2012-10-31 Name : Ubuntu Update for ruby1.8 USN-1603-2
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1603_2.nasl
2012-10-23 Name : Fedora Update for ruby FEDORA-2012-16086
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_16086_ruby_fc17.nasl
2012-10-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for ruby1.9.1 USN-1614-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1614_1.nasl
2012-10-16 Name : Fedora Update for ruby FEDORA-2012-15395
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_15395_ruby_fc17.nasl
2012-10-16 Name : Fedora Update for ruby FEDORA-2012-15507
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_15507_ruby_fc16.nasl
2012-10-11 Name : Ubuntu Update for ruby1.9.1 USN-1602-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1602_1.nasl
2012-10-11 Name : Ubuntu Update for ruby1.8 USN-1603-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1603_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_ruby_20130924.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-27.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-167.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-763.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2013-173.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2012-139.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0612.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-124.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-04 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_ruby-8524.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-13 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_ruby-130221.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-10 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-0612.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-0612.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-08 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20130307_ruby_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-17 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20130108_ruby_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-17 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-0129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-0129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-02 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_2a093853249511e2b0c7000d601460a4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1603-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1614-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-15395.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-15507.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-11 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1602-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-11 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1603-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-15376.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:00:55
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2013-05-02 21:20:22
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2013-04-26 21:21:03
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2013-04-26 17:20:09
  • Multiple Updates
2013-04-26 13:20:19
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2013-02-06 19:08:28
  • Multiple Updates