Fedora: 10 Rubygem-Actionpack Moderate: XSS Injection Resolved
fedora
September 24, 2009
A vulnerability is found on Ruby on Rails in the escaping code for the form
helpers, which also affects the rpms shipped in Fedora Project
Summary
Eases web-request routing, handling, and response as a half-way front,
half-way page controller. Implemented with specific emphasis on enabling easy
unit/integration testing that doesn't require a browser.
Update Information:
A vulnerability is found on Ruby on Rails in the escaping code for the form helpers, which also affects the rpms shipped in Fedora Project. Attackers who can inject deliberately malformed unicode strings into the form helpers can defeat the escaping checks and inject arbitrary HTML. This issue has been tagged as CVE-2009-3009. These new rpms will fix this issue.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon Sep 21 2009 Mamoru Tasaka
References
[ 1 ] Bug #520843 - CVE-2009-3009 ruby-activesupport: XSS vulnerability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520843
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update rubygem-actionpack' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: rubygem-actionpack
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.1.1
Release: 3.fc10
Summary: Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC
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