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Fedora 26 Medium Security Alert: Update For Rack Protection Timing Attack

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Address the timing exploitation issue within Fedora's rubygem-rack-protection by applying the most recent security patch, enhancing the overall safety of your applications.
Fix timing attack in authenticity_token.rb (rhbz#1534027).

Summary

This gem protects against typical web attacks.

Should work for all Rack apps, including Rails.

Fix timing attack in authenticity_token.rb (rhbz#1534027).

[ 1 ] Bug #1534027 - rack-protection: Timing attack in authenticity_token.rb

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1534027

su -c 'dnf upgrade rubygem-rack-protection' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.5.3
Release: 5.fc26
Summary: Ruby gem that protects against typical web attacks

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