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Red Hat: RHSA-2014-0923-02 Critical XSS Vulnerability Detected

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2014
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New ruby193-rubygem-activerecord updates mitigate a significant SQL injection vulnerability for Red Hat customers.
Updated ruby193-rubygem-activerecord packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Software Collections 1

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Active Record implements object-relational mapping for accessing database entries using objects.
It was discovered that Active Record did not properly quote values of the bitstring type attributes when using the PostgreSQL database adapter. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to conduct an SQL injection attack against applications using Active Record. (CVE-2014-3482)
Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby on Rails project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Sean Griffin of thoughtbot as the original reporter.
All ruby193-rubygem-activerecord users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat sql injection ruby rubygem activerecord

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3482 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el6.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el6.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-doc-3.2.8-8.2.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el6.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el6.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-doc-3.2.8-8.2.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el6.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el6.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-doc-3.2.8-8.2.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el7.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-doc-3.2.8-8.2.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-3.2.8-8.2.el7.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-doc-3.2.8-8.2.el7.noarch.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:0876-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0876.html
Issue date: 2014-07-14

Topic

Updated ruby193-rubygem-activerecord packages that fix one security issueare now available for Red Hat Software Collections 1.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderatesecurity impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link inthe References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat sql injection ruby rubygem activerecord

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1114425 - CVE-2014-3482 rubygem-activerecord: SQL injection vulnerability in 'bitstring' quoting

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