RHSA-2014:1102 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated ror40-rubygem-activerecord packages that fix one security issue are
now available for Red Hat Software Collections 1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the
References section.

Description

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web
application development. Active Record implements object-relational mapping
for accessing database entries using objects.

It was discovered that Active Record's create_with method failed to
properly check attributes passed to it. A remote attacker could possibly
use this flaw to bypass the strong parameter protection and modify
arbitrary model attributes via mass assignment if an application using
Active Record called create_with with untrusted values. (CVE-2014-3514)

All ror40-rubygem-activerecord users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

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/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.5 x86_64
• 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 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1131240 - CVE-2014-3514 rubygem-activerecord: Strong Parameter bypass with create_with

CVEs

• CVE-2014-3514

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important