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Red Hat: RHSA-2016:1855-01 Moderate Update for XSS and Unsafe Query

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2016
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A major security patch for rh-ror42 has been issued to address cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and unsafe query issues. Additional details are available.
An update for rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview, rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord, and rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Summary

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action View implements the view component, and Active Record implements the model component.
Security Fix(es) in rubygem-actionview:
* It was discovered that Action View tag helpers did not escape quotes when using strings declared as HTML safe as attribute values. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. (CVE-2016-6316)
Security Fix(es) in rubygem-activerecord:
* A flaw was found in the way Active Record handled certain special values in dynamic finders and relations. If a Ruby on Rails application performed JSON parameter parsing, a remote attacker could possibly manipulate search conditions in SQL queries generated by the application. (CVE-2016-6317)
Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby on Rails project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Carpenter (Critical Juncture) as the original reporter of CVE-2016-6316; and joernchen (Phenoelit) as the original reporter of CVE-2016-6317.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update red hat rubygem xss flaw unsafe query

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6316 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6317 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-4.2.6-3.el7.src.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-4.2.6-3.el7.src.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord-4.2.6-3.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-doc-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord-doc-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1):
Source: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-4.2.6-3.el7.src.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-4.2.6-3.el7.src.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord-4.2.6-3.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-doc-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord-doc-4.2.6-3.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2):
Source: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack-4.2.6-3.el7.src.rpm rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview-4.2.6-3.el7.src.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1855-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1855.html
Issue date: 2016-09-13

Topic

An update for rh-ror42-rubygem-actionview, rh-ror42-rubygem-activerecord,and rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack is now available for Red Hat SoftwareCollections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update red hat rubygem xss flaw unsafe query

Relevant Releases Architectures

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. 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. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1365008 - CVE-2016-6316 rubygem-actionview: cross-site scripting flaw in Action View

1365017 - CVE-2016-6317 rubygem-activerecord: unsafe query generation in Active Record

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