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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1794 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2013-12-05
Updated:
2013-12-05

RHSA-2013:1794 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

Updated ruby193-rubygem-actionpack packages that fix multiple security
issues are now available for Red Hat Software Collections 1.

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.

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
specially crafted 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)

All ruby193-rubygem-actionpack users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1036409 - CVE-2013-6417 rubygem-actionpack: unsafe query generation risk (incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0155)
  • BZ - 1036483 - CVE-2013-6414 rubygem-actionpack: Action View DoS
  • BZ - 1036910 - CVE-2013-6415 rubygem-actionpack: number_to_currency XSS
  • BZ - 1036922 - CVE-2013-4491 rubygem-actionpack: i18n missing translation XSS

CVEs

  • CVE-2013-6414
  • CVE-2013-6415
  • CVE-2013-6417
  • CVE-2013-4491

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.4

SRPM
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: b91c84bf1d7feb6f47f386c2882e094763052572044e08c2979063f80ab964bf
x86_64
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e063c8cf6215c4fefd81d3451745590cbf1f5a56ac8333badcbca6dec6b7aad5
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6cf4da2e24fc4afcda88e55d86e0071651ea68d6f04e480b12a479ab0306cdcc

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.3

SRPM
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: b91c84bf1d7feb6f47f386c2882e094763052572044e08c2979063f80ab964bf
x86_64
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e063c8cf6215c4fefd81d3451745590cbf1f5a56ac8333badcbca6dec6b7aad5
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6cf4da2e24fc4afcda88e55d86e0071651ea68d6f04e480b12a479ab0306cdcc

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.2

SRPM
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: b91c84bf1d7feb6f47f386c2882e094763052572044e08c2979063f80ab964bf
x86_64
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e063c8cf6215c4fefd81d3451745590cbf1f5a56ac8333badcbca6dec6b7aad5
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6cf4da2e24fc4afcda88e55d86e0071651ea68d6f04e480b12a479ab0306cdcc

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6

SRPM
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: b91c84bf1d7feb6f47f386c2882e094763052572044e08c2979063f80ab964bf
x86_64
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e063c8cf6215c4fefd81d3451745590cbf1f5a56ac8333badcbca6dec6b7aad5
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6cf4da2e24fc4afcda88e55d86e0071651ea68d6f04e480b12a479ab0306cdcc

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6

SRPM
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: b91c84bf1d7feb6f47f386c2882e094763052572044e08c2979063f80ab964bf
x86_64
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e063c8cf6215c4fefd81d3451745590cbf1f5a56ac8333badcbca6dec6b7aad5
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6cf4da2e24fc4afcda88e55d86e0071651ea68d6f04e480b12a479ab0306cdcc

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6

SRPM
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: b91c84bf1d7feb6f47f386c2882e094763052572044e08c2979063f80ab964bf
x86_64
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e063c8cf6215c4fefd81d3451745590cbf1f5a56ac8333badcbca6dec6b7aad5
ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc-3.2.8-5.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6cf4da2e24fc4afcda88e55d86e0071651ea68d6f04e480b12a479ab0306cdcc

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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