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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ruby (MDVSA-2012:024)

2012-02-2900:00:00
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A vulnerability has been found and corrected in ruby :

Ruby (aka CRuby) before 1.8.7-p357 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table (CVE-2011-4815).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2012:024. 
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(58163);
  script_version("1.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-4815");
  script_bugtraq_id(51198);
  script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2012:024");

  script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ruby (MDVSA-2012:024)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A vulnerability has been found and corrected in ruby :

Ruby (aka CRuby) before 1.8.7-p357 computes hash values without
restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which
allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU
consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash
table (CVE-2011-4815).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ruby");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ruby-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ruby-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ruby-tk");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2011");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/02/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/02/29");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/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);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"ruby-1.8.7.p249-4.2mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"ruby-devel-1.8.7.p249-4.2mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"ruby-doc-1.8.7.p249-4.2mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"ruby-tk-1.8.7.p249-4.2mdv2010.2", yank:"mdv")) flag++;

if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", reference:"ruby-1.8.7.p334-4.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", reference:"ruby-devel-1.8.7.p334-4.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", reference:"ruby-doc-1.8.7.p334-4.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", reference:"ruby-tk-1.8.7.p334-4.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
mandrivalinuxrubyp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ruby
mandrivalinuxruby-develp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ruby-devel
mandrivalinuxruby-docp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ruby-doc
mandrivalinuxruby-tkp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ruby-tk
mandrivalinux2010.1cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1
mandrivalinux2011cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2011