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security advisorydenial of servicedebianDebian DSA-2888-1 Critical: Ruby Actionpack DoS and XSS Issues
Toby Hsieh, Peter McLarnan, Ankit Gupta, Sudhir Rao and Kevin Reintjes discovered multiple cross-site scripting and denial of service vulnerabilities in Ruby Actionpack. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2888-1
Mar 27, 2014
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security advisorydenial of servicecross site scriptingRed Hat OpenStack 3.0 RHSA-2014:0008-01 Important Ruby ActionPack Security
Updated ruby193-rubygem-actionpack packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat OpenStack 3.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More...]. ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:0008-01 Product: Red Hat OpenStack Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0008.html Issue date: 2014-01-06 CVE Names: CVE-2013-4491 CVE-2013-6414 CVE-2013-6415 CVE-2013-6417 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: Updated ruby193-rubygem-actionpack packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat OpenStack 3.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: OpenStack 3 - noarch 3. Description: Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components. A flaw was found in the way Ruby on Rails performed JSON parameter parsing. An application using a third party library, which uses the Rack::Request interface, or custom Rack middleware could bypass the protection implemented to fix the CVE-2013-0155 vulnerability, causing the application to receive unsafe parameters and become vulnerable to CVE-2013-0155. (CVE-2013-6417) It was discovered that the internationalization component of Ruby on Rails could, under certain circumstances, return a fallback HTML string that contained user input. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a reflective cross-site scripting (XSS) attack by providing a speciallycrafted input to an application using the aforementioned component. (CVE-2013-4491) A denial of service flaw was found in the header handling component of Action View. A remote attacker could send strings in specially crafted headers that would be cached indefinitely, which would result in all available system memory eventually being consumed. (CVE-2013-6414) It was found that the number_to_currency Action View helper did not properly escape the unit parameter. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on an application that uses data submitted by a user in the unit parameter. (CVE-2013-6415) Users of Red Hat OpenStack 3.0 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. 4. 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/site/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1036409 - CVE-2013-6417 rubygem-actionpack: unsafe query generation risk (incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0155) 1036483 - CVE-2013-6414 rubygem-actionpack: Action View DoS 1036910 - CVE-2013-6415 rubygem-actionpack: number_to_currency XSS 1036922 - CVE-2013-4491 rubygem-actionpack: i18n missing translation XSS 6. Package List: OpenStack 3: Source: noarch: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4491 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6414 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6415 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6417 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important 8.Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact Copyright 2014 Red Hat, Inc. . Important security patch released for ruby193-rubygem-activerecord, rectifying several vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenStack version 3.0.. Ruby193-Rubygem-Actionpack, Red Hat Advisory, Security Update, Action View, XSS Risk. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 06, 2014
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