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HistorySep 27, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DLA-1112-1 : rubygems security update

2017-09-2700:00:00
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Some vulnerabilities were found in the Rubygems package that affects the LTS distribution.

CVE-2017-0900

DOS vulernerability in the query command

CVE-2017-0901

gem installer allows a malicious gem to overwrite arbitrary files

For Debian 7 ‘Wheezy’, these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.24-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rubygems packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1112-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(103470);
  script_version("3.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-0900", "CVE-2017-0901");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1112-1 : rubygems security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Some vulnerabilities were found in the Rubygems package that affects
the LTS distribution.

CVE-2017-0900

DOS vulernerability in the query command

CVE-2017-0901

gem installer allows a malicious gem to overwrite arbitrary files

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
1.8.24-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rubygems packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/09/msg00031.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/rubygems"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Upgrade the affected rubygems, rubygems-doc, and rubygems1.8 packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rubygems");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rubygems-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rubygems1.8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/09/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/09/27");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"rubygems", reference:"1.8.24-1+deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"rubygems-doc", reference:"1.8.24-1+deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"rubygems1.8", reference:"1.8.24-1+deb7u1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxrubygemsp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rubygems
debiandebian_linuxrubygems-docp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rubygems-doc
debiandebian_linuxrubygems1.8p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rubygems1.8
debiandebian_linux7.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0