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Fedora 22 Security Advisory: Rubygem-Activesupport Critical Input Checks

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch applied to rubygem-activesupport in Fedora 22, fixing numerous security issues and enhancing overall reliability.
Security fix for CVE-2015-7576 CVE-2016-0753

Summary

Utility library which carries commonly used classes and

goodies from the Rails framework

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-7576 CVE-2016-0753

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora input validation timing attack rubygem-activesupport

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1301973 - CVE-2016-0753 rubygem-activemodel, rubygem-activerecord: possible input validation circumvention in Active Model https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301973 [ 2 ] Bug #1301933 - CVE-2015-7576 rubygem-actionpack: Timing attack vulnerability in basic authentication in Action Controller https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301933

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 22
Version: 4.2.0
Release: 4.fc22
URL: https://rubyonrails.org/
Summary: Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora input validation timing attack rubygem-activesupport

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