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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-12966 (rubygem-actionpack)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-12966 2009-12-10 03:28:55 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : rubygem-actionpack Product : Fedora 10 Version : 2.1.1 Release : 5.fc10 URL : http://www.rubyonrails.org Summary : Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC Description : Eases web-request routing, handling, and response as a half-way front, half-way page controller. Implemented with specific emphasis on enabling easy unit/integration testing that doesn't require a browser. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Two security issues are found on activepack shipped on Fedora 10. One bug is that there is a weakness in the strip_tags function in ruby on rails (bug 542786, CVE-2009-4214). Another one is a possibility to circumvent protection against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks (bug 544329). This new rpm will fix these issues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Dec 7 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 2.1.1-5 - Fix for potential CSRF protection circumvention (bug 544329) - Fix for XSS weakness in strip_tags (bug 542786) * Mon Sep 21 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 2.1.1-3 - Patch for CVE-2009-3009 (bug 520843) * Thu Feb 26 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip@fedoraproject.org> - 2.1.1-2 - Fix CVE-2008-5189 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #542786 - rubygem-actionpack: XSS weakness in strip_tags https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542786 [ 2 ] Bug #544329 - rubygem-actionpack: Potential CSRF protection circumvention https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544329 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update rubygem-actionpack' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
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