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Fedora 23 Update: Security Fix for Rubygem-Activesupport CVE-2015-7576

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update for rubygem-activesupport on Fedora 23 tackles CVE-2015-7576 to reduce the vulnerabilities related to timing attacks.
Security fix for CVE-2015-7576

Summary

Utility library which carries commonly used classes and

goodies from the Rails framework

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-7576

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix timing attack rubygem-activesupport Fedora 23

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] 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 23
Version: 4.2.3
Release: 3.fc23
URL: https://rubyonrails.org/
Summary: Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix timing attack rubygem-activesupport Fedora 23

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