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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69075
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 13 FEDORA-2011-1913 (ruby)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to ruby
announced via advisory FEDORA-2011-1913.

Update Information:

Two patches backported from 1.8.7 branch, for

* Symlink race condition in FileUtils.remove_entry_secure

* bypass of $SAFE mechanism in Exception#to_s

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #678913 - CVE-2011-1004 Ruby: Symlink race condition by removing directory trees in fileutils module
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678913
[ 2 ] Bug #678920 - CVE-2011-1005 Ruby: Untrusted codes able to modify arbitrary strings
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678920

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update ruby' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2011-1913

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.3

Cross-Ref: 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://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0908.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0909.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40220
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1004
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
BugTraq ID: 46460
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46460
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054422.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054436.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/21/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/21/5
http://osvdb.org/70958
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0910.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43434
http://secunia.com/advisories/43573
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0539
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1005
BugTraq ID: 46458
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46458
http://osvdb.org/70957
http://secunia.com/advisories/43420
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