MGASA-2018-0449 - Updated ruby-rack packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 15 Nov 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0449.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-16471

There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Rack.  Carefully crafted
requests can impact the data returned by the `scheme` method on
`Rack::Request`.Applications that expect the scheme to be limited to
"http" or "https" and do not escape the return value could be vulnerable
to an XSS attack (CVE-2018-16471).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23813
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/05/2
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16471

SRPMS:
- 6/core/ruby-rack-1.6.11-1.mga6

Mageia 2018-0449: ruby-rack security update

There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Rack

Summary

There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Rack. Carefully crafted requests can impact the data returned by the `scheme` method on `Rack::Request`.Applications that expect the scheme to be limited to "http" or "https" and do not escape the return value could be vulnerable to an XSS attack (CVE-2018-16471).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23813

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/05/2

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16471

Resolution

MGASA-2018-0449 - Updated ruby-rack packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 6/core/ruby-rack-1.6.11-1.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 15 Nov 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0449.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-16471

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