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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70036
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 15 FEDORA-2011-9359 (ruby)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to ruby
announced via advisory FEDORA-2011-9359.

Update Information:

New version 1.8.7p352 is released, fixing randomization process in forked process (CVE-2011-2686). Also ruby path is fixed to have no duplicate directories on all archs.

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #722415 - CVE-2011-2686 CVE-2011-2705 ruby: Properly initialize the random number generator when forking new process
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722415

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-2011-9359

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-2686
BugTraq ID: 49015
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49015
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063071.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063062.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/11/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/12/14
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/20/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/20/16
XForce ISS Database: ruby-random-number-dos(69032)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69032
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-2705
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1581.html
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