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Fedora: 2015-10545 Critical: rubygem-activesupport DoS Mitigation

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2015
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Fedora 21 has launched a key update focused on enhancing security for rubygem-activesupport, addressing critical Denial of Service vulnerabilities that can impact system stability
Fixes for: CVE-2015-3226 Escape HTML entities in JSON keys CVE-2015-3227 XML documents that are too deep can cause an stack overflow, which in turn will cause a potential DoS attac...

Summary

Utility library which carries commonly used classes and

goodies from the Rails framework

Update Information:

Fixes for:

CVE-2015-3226 Escape HTML entities in JSON keys

CVE-2015-3227 XML documents that are too deep can cause an stack overflow, which in turn will cause a potential DoS attack.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora DoS critical fix attack mitigation rubygem-activesupport

Change Log

* Mon Jun 22 2015 Josef Stribny - 1:4.1.5-2 - Fix for CVE-2015-3226 - Related: rhbz#1232310 - Fix for CVE-2015-3227 - Related: rhbz#1232302

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-10545 2015-06-23 03:03:31
Name : rubygem-activesupport Product : Fedora 21 Version : 4.1.5 Release : 2.fc21 URL : https://rubyonrails.org/ Summary : Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework Description : Utility library which carries commonly used classes and goodies from the Rails framework

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 21
Version: 4.1.5
Release: 2.fc21
URL: https://rubyonrails.org/
Summary: Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora DoS critical fix attack mitigation rubygem-activesupport

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