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Fedora 11: 2009-9922 Critical Advisory: Rubygem-Activesupport XSS Issue

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Imperative patch for rubygem-activesupport mitigates HTML injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Fedora 11.
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

Utility library which carries commonly used classes and

goodies from the Rails framework

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical XSS html injection rubygem-activesupport

Change Log

* Wed Sep 23 2009 Mamoru Tasaka - 2.3.3-2 - Patch for CVE-2009-3009 (bug 520843) * Sun Jul 26 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen - 2.3.3-1 - New upstream version

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-activesupport' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: rubygem-activesupport
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 2.3.3
Release: 2.fc11
URL: https://rubyonrails.org/
Summary: Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical XSS html injection rubygem-activesupport

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