Issued:
2016-09-13
Updated:
2016-09-13

RHSA-2016:1856 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Moderate: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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

Description

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action View implements the view component.

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.

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 rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.1 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 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 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

Fixes

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

CVEs

References

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8b5d5b581dedb3c9b974b4f99aaf207eb7480767b0ddd6401c0c96a03882ee26
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 09b75dc1ef01d603646b7d6b7f28bbdf49a7706d30b6a441ffb0c792b2068da0
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 9fb00575253bce7e97cd66ecac616e6e565f095ab21cb6576bbc668fd65fedc3

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8b5d5b581dedb3c9b974b4f99aaf207eb7480767b0ddd6401c0c96a03882ee26
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 09b75dc1ef01d603646b7d6b7f28bbdf49a7706d30b6a441ffb0c792b2068da0
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 9fb00575253bce7e97cd66ecac616e6e565f095ab21cb6576bbc668fd65fedc3

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8b5d5b581dedb3c9b974b4f99aaf207eb7480767b0ddd6401c0c96a03882ee26
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 09b75dc1ef01d603646b7d6b7f28bbdf49a7706d30b6a441ffb0c792b2068da0
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 9fb00575253bce7e97cd66ecac616e6e565f095ab21cb6576bbc668fd65fedc3

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.2

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8b5d5b581dedb3c9b974b4f99aaf207eb7480767b0ddd6401c0c96a03882ee26
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 09b75dc1ef01d603646b7d6b7f28bbdf49a7706d30b6a441ffb0c792b2068da0
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 9fb00575253bce7e97cd66ecac616e6e565f095ab21cb6576bbc668fd65fedc3

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.1

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8b5d5b581dedb3c9b974b4f99aaf207eb7480767b0ddd6401c0c96a03882ee26
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 09b75dc1ef01d603646b7d6b7f28bbdf49a7706d30b6a441ffb0c792b2068da0
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 9fb00575253bce7e97cd66ecac616e6e565f095ab21cb6576bbc668fd65fedc3

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8b5d5b581dedb3c9b974b4f99aaf207eb7480767b0ddd6401c0c96a03882ee26
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 09b75dc1ef01d603646b7d6b7f28bbdf49a7706d30b6a441ffb0c792b2068da0
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 9fb00575253bce7e97cd66ecac616e6e565f095ab21cb6576bbc668fd65fedc3

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 0c3c6105aed2fbdee442a7e21f461e3692f7c71b975ec5e20d02b539ce90c1fd
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 4081cd27d131861b6be99ddaa52ff940173513c45ef992eba4d1b08b5804bfcb
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 84ace0dec7809de12583c1164d11d29deec77311e0adf8f630b0f5edd3496bf6

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 0c3c6105aed2fbdee442a7e21f461e3692f7c71b975ec5e20d02b539ce90c1fd
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 4081cd27d131861b6be99ddaa52ff940173513c45ef992eba4d1b08b5804bfcb
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 84ace0dec7809de12583c1164d11d29deec77311e0adf8f630b0f5edd3496bf6

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

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 0c3c6105aed2fbdee442a7e21f461e3692f7c71b975ec5e20d02b539ce90c1fd
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 4081cd27d131861b6be99ddaa52ff940173513c45ef992eba4d1b08b5804bfcb
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 84ace0dec7809de12583c1164d11d29deec77311e0adf8f630b0f5edd3496bf6

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8b5d5b581dedb3c9b974b4f99aaf207eb7480767b0ddd6401c0c96a03882ee26
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 09b75dc1ef01d603646b7d6b7f28bbdf49a7706d30b6a441ffb0c792b2068da0
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 9fb00575253bce7e97cd66ecac616e6e565f095ab21cb6576bbc668fd65fedc3

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

SRPM
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 0c3c6105aed2fbdee442a7e21f461e3692f7c71b975ec5e20d02b539ce90c1fd
x86_64
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 4081cd27d131861b6be99ddaa52ff940173513c45ef992eba4d1b08b5804bfcb
rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 84ace0dec7809de12583c1164d11d29deec77311e0adf8f630b0f5edd3496bf6

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