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Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:160 (ruby)

🗓️ 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 E-Soft Inc.Type 
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Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:160 (ruby) reports a vulnerability in Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 allowing attackers to cause a denial of service, and it provides solutions for affected versions

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64462");
  script_version("2023-07-19T05:05:15+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-19 05:05:15 +0000 (Wed, 19 Jul 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-07-29 19:28:37 +0200 (Wed, 29 Jul 2009)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1904");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_name("Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:160 (ruby)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 E-Soft Inc.");
  script_family("Mandrake Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/mandriva_mandrake_linux", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=MNDK_(2008\.1|2009\.0|2009\.1|3\.0|4\.0)");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before
p173 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service
(application crash) via a string argument that represents a large
number, as demonstrated by an attempted conversion to the Float
data type.

This update corrects the problem.

Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:160");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to ruby
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:160.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby", rpm:"ruby~1.8.6~9p114.3mdv2008.1", rls:"MNDK_2008.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-devel", rpm:"ruby-devel~1.8.6~9p114.3mdv2008.1", rls:"MNDK_2008.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-doc", rpm:"ruby-doc~1.8.6~9p114.3mdv2008.1", rls:"MNDK_2008.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-tk", rpm:"ruby-tk~1.8.6~9p114.3mdv2008.1", rls:"MNDK_2008.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby", rpm:"ruby~1.8.7~7p72.1mdv2009.0", rls:"MNDK_2009.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-devel", rpm:"ruby-devel~1.8.7~7p72.1mdv2009.0", rls:"MNDK_2009.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-doc", rpm:"ruby-doc~1.8.7~7p72.1mdv2009.0", rls:"MNDK_2009.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-tk", rpm:"ruby-tk~1.8.7~7p72.1mdv2009.0", rls:"MNDK_2009.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby", rpm:"ruby~1.8.7~9p72.1mdv2009.1", rls:"MNDK_2009.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-devel", rpm:"ruby-devel~1.8.7~9p72.1mdv2009.1", rls:"MNDK_2009.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-doc", rpm:"ruby-doc~1.8.7~9p72.1mdv2009.1", rls:"MNDK_2009.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-tk", rpm:"ruby-tk~1.8.7~9p72.1mdv2009.1", rls:"MNDK_2009.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby", rpm:"ruby~1.8.1~1.12.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-devel", rpm:"ruby-devel~1.8.1~1.12.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-doc", rpm:"ruby-doc~1.8.1~1.12.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-tk", rpm:"ruby-tk~1.8.1~1.12.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby", rpm:"ruby~1.8.2~7.9.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-devel", rpm:"ruby-devel~1.8.2~7.9.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-doc", rpm:"ruby-doc~1.8.2~7.9.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ruby-tk", rpm:"ruby-tk~1.8.2~7.9.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
}

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19 Jul 2023 00:00Current
9.4High risk
Vulners AI Score9.4
CVSS 25
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