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Red Hat: RHSA-2016-1858-01 Moderate: Ruby Action Pack XSS Fix

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2016
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Important patch released for ruby193-rubygem-actionpack to resolve a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Critical for users of Red Hat.
An update for ruby193-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

All running applications using ruby193-rubygem-actionpack must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.
Security Fix(es):
* 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)
Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby on Rails project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Carpenter (Critical Juncture) as the original reporter.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate xss ruby red hat software

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el6.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el6.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-20.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el6.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el6.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-20.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el6.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el6.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-20.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el6.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el6.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-20.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el7.src.rpm
noarch: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-20.el7.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-20.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1):
Source:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1858-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1858.html
Issue date: 2016-09-13

Topic

An update for ruby193-rubygem-actionpack is now available for Red HatSoftware Collections.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate xss ruby red hat software

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

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

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