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openSUSE 13.2: 2016:0835-1 Critical Advisory for Ruby Actionpack RCE

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important notice for openSUSE users regarding vulnerabilities in rubygem-actionpack. Follow these patch steps to ensure your system remains secure!
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for rubygem-actionpack-3_2 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2016-2097: rubygem-actionview: Possible Information Leak

Vulnerability in Action View. (boo#968850)

- CVE-2016-2098: rubygem-actionpack: Possible remote code execution

vulnerability in Action Pack (boo#968849)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-369=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.17-3.10.1

rubygem-actionpack-3_2-doc-3.2.17-3.10.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2097.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2098.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968849

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968850

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0835-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 .

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