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FreeBSD Ports: rubygem-actionpack

🗓️ 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (c) 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.comType 
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Vulnerability in rubygem-actionpack for FreeBSD Port

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#
#VID ae2fa87c-4bca-4138-8be1-67ce2a19b3a8
# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $
# Description: Auto generated from VID ae2fa87c-4bca-4138-8be1-67ce2a19b3a8
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisories, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#

include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "The following package is affected: rubygem-actionpack

CVE-2012-3424
The decode_credentials method in
actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/http_authentication.rb in Ruby
on Rails 3.x before 3.0.16, 3.1.x before 3.1.7, and 3.2.x before 3.2.7
converts Digest Authentication strings to symbols, which allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service by leveraging access to an
application that uses a with_http_digest helper method, as
demonstrated by the authenticate_or_request_with_http_digest method.";
tag_solution = "Update your system with the appropriate patches or
software upgrades.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/rubyonrails-security/vxJjrc15qYM
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/ae2fa87c-4bca-4138-8be1-67ce2a19b3a8.html";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to the system
as announced in the referenced advisory.";



if(description)
{
 script_id(71516);
 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_cve_id("CVE-2012-3424");
 script_version("$Revision: 5958 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-04-17 11:02:19 +0200 (Mon, 17 Apr 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-08-10 03:22:17 -0400 (Fri, 10 Aug 2012)");
 script_name("FreeBSD Ports: rubygem-actionpack");


 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

 script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
 script_family("FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
 script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/freebsdrel", "login/SSH/success");
 script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
 script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("pkg-lib-bsd.inc");
vuln = 0;
txt = "";
bver = portver(pkg:"rubygem-actionpack");
if(!isnull(bver) && revcomp(a:bver, b:"3.2.7")<0) {
    txt += "Package rubygem-actionpack version " + bver + " is installed which is known to be vulnerable.\n";
    vuln = 1;
}

if(vuln) {
    security_message(data:string(txt ));
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}

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17 Apr 2017 00:00Current
6.3Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.3
EPSS0.00981
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