The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2014-441.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(78874);
script_version("1.5");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:35");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8080");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2014-441");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : ruby20 (ALAS-2014-441)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before
2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka
an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-441.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Run 'yum update ruby20' to update your system."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-irb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-bigdecimal");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-io-console");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-psych");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems20-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/11/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/11/06");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"ruby20-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"ruby20-debuginfo-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"ruby20-devel-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"ruby20-doc-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"ruby20-irb-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"ruby20-libs-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"rubygem20-bigdecimal-1.2.0-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"rubygem20-io-console-0.4.2-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"rubygem20-psych-2.0.0-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"rubygems20-2.0.14-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"rubygems20-devel-2.0.14-1.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "ruby20 / ruby20-debuginfo / ruby20-devel / ruby20-doc / ruby20-irb / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
amazon | linux | ruby20 | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20 |
amazon | linux | ruby20-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | ruby20-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-devel |
amazon | linux | ruby20-doc | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-doc |
amazon | linux | ruby20-irb | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-irb |
amazon | linux | ruby20-libs | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby20-libs |
amazon | linux | rubygem20-bigdecimal | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-bigdecimal |
amazon | linux | rubygem20-io-console | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-io-console |
amazon | linux | rubygem20-psych | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem20-psych |
amazon | linux | rubygems20 | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems20 |