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Fedora Core 2 2004-402: ruby

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the ruby package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2004-402 (ruby).

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text
files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple,
straight-forward, and extensible.

* Thu Nov 11 2004 Akira TAGOH - 1.8.1-6.FC2.0

- security fix [CVE-2004-0983]
- ruby-1.8.1-cgi-dos.patch: applied to fix a denial of service issue.
(#138366)

Solution : http://www.fedoranews.org/blog/index.php?p=62
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

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