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amazonAmazonALAS-2015-530
HistoryMay 27, 2015 - 2:05 p.m.

Medium: ruby19

2015-05-2714:05:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
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5.9 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

0.028 Low

EPSS

Percentile

90.5%

Issue Overview:

As discussed in an upstream announcement (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/04/13/ruby-openssl-hostname-matching-vulnerability/), Ruby’s OpenSSL extension suffers a vulnerability through overly permissive matching of hostnames, which can lead to similar bugs such as CVE-2014-1492.

Affected Packages:

ruby19

Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby19 to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    rubygem19-json-1.5.5-32.66.amzn1.i686  
    ruby19-debuginfo-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.i686  
    ruby19-libs-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.i686  
    rubygem19-bigdecimal-1.1.0-32.66.amzn1.i686  
    ruby19-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.i686  
    ruby19-doc-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.i686  
    rubygem19-io-console-0.3-32.66.amzn1.i686  
    ruby19-devel-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    rubygems19-devel-1.8.23.2-32.66.amzn1.noarch  
    ruby19-irb-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.noarch  
    rubygems19-1.8.23.2-32.66.amzn1.noarch  
    rubygem19-rdoc-3.9.5-32.66.amzn1.noarch  
    rubygem19-minitest-2.5.1-32.66.amzn1.noarch  
    rubygem19-rake-0.9.2.2-32.66.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    ruby19-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ruby19-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.x86_64  
    ruby19-debuginfo-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.x86_64  
    ruby19-doc-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.x86_64  
    ruby19-devel-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.x86_64  
    rubygem19-io-console-0.3-32.66.amzn1.x86_64  
    rubygem19-bigdecimal-1.1.0-32.66.amzn1.x86_64  
    ruby19-libs-1.9.3.551-32.66.amzn1.x86_64  
    rubygem19-json-1.5.5-32.66.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2015-1855

Mitre: CVE-2015-1855

5.9 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

0.028 Low

EPSS

Percentile

90.5%