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Fedora 9: 2009-2335 High: Rubygem-Actionpack CGI Injection

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Rubygem-actionview upgrade addresses potential HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities on Fedora 9 to improve security.
CVE-2008-5189: CGI header injection vulnerability

Summary

Eases web-request routing, handling, and response as a half-way front,

half-way page controller. Implemented with specific emphasis on enabling easy

unit/integration testing that doesn't require a browser.

CVE-2008-5189: CGI header injection vulnerability

* Thu Feb 26 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen - 2.1.1-2

- Fix CVE-2008-5189

* Tue Sep 16 2008 David Lutterkort - 2.1.1-1

- New version (fixes CVE-2008-4094)

* Thu Jul 31 2008 Michael Stahnke - 2.1.0-1

- New Upstream

[ 1 ] Bug #472510 - CVE-2008-5189 rubygems-actionpack: redirect HTTP header injection vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472510

su -c 'yum update rubygem-actionpack' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 9
Version: 2.1.1
Release: 2.fc9
Summary: Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC

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