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Red Hat Software Collections: RHSA-2018-2245-01 Important Path Fix

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2018
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A significant safety update for rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets highlighting essential corrections for Red Hat applications.
An update for rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets 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

Sprockets is a Ruby library for compiling and serving web assets. It features declarative dependency management for JavaScript and CSS assets, as well as a powerful preprocessor pipeline that allows to write assets in languages like CoffeeScript, Sass and SCSS.
Security Fix(es):
* rubygem-sprockets: Path traversal in forbidden_request?() can allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files (CVE-2018-3760)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update red hat path traversal rubygem

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3760 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-doc-3.7.1-2.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-doc-3.7.1-2.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el6.noarch.rpm rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-doc-3.7.1-2.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-doc-3.7.1-2.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3):
Source: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-3.7.1-2.el7.noarch.rpm rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets-doc-3.7.1-2.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4):
Source:

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important
Lowest
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2245-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2245
Issue date: 2018-07-24

Topic

An update for rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets is now available for Red HatSoftware Collections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update red hat path traversal rubygem

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. 6.7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - 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

1593058 - CVE-2018-3760 rubygem-sprockets: Path traversal in forbidden_request?() can allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files

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