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Red Hat: RHSA-2016-0456-01 Important: ActionView Code Flaws

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2016
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Updated rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The rh-ror41 collection provides Ruby on Rails version 4.1. Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development.
The following issues were corrected in rubygem-actionview:
A directory traversal flaw was found in the way the Action View component searched for templates for rendering. If an application passed untrusted input to the 'render' method, a remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to render unexpected files and, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2097)
A code injection flaw was found in the way the Action View component searched for templates for rendering. If an application passed untrusted input to the 'render' method, a remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2098)
Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby on Rails project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Jyoti Singh and Tobias Kraze (makandra) as original reporters of CVE-2016-2097, and Tobias Kraze (makandra) and joernchen (Phenoelit) as original reporters of CVE-2016-2098.
All rh-ror41 collection rubygem-actionview packages users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications using the rh-ror41 collection must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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security advisory red hat directory traversal important code injection code flaw actionview

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2097 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2098 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-4.1.5-4.el6.src.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-5.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-4.1.5-4.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-doc-4.1.5-4.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-5.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-5.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6):
Source: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-4.1.5-4.el6.src.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-5.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-4.1.5-4.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-doc-4.1.5-4.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-5.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-5.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-4.1.5-4.el6.src.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-5.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-4.1.5-4.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-doc-4.1.5-4.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-5.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-5.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:0456-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0456.html
Issue date: 2016-03-15

Topic

Updated rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview packages that fix two security issuesare now available for Red Hat Software Collections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important securityimpact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which givedetailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from theCVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat directory traversal important code injection code flaw actionview

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2) - noarch

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1310043 - CVE-2016-2097 rubygem-actionview, rubygem-actionpack: directory traversal in Action View, incomplete CVE-2016-0752 fix

1310054 - CVE-2016-2098 rubygem-actionview, rubygem-actionpack: code injection vulnerability in Action View

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