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Fedora 11 : rubygem-actionpack-2.3.3-2.fc11 / rubygem-activesupport-2.3.3-2.fc11 (2009-9922)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 41634

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A vulnerability is found on Ruby on Rails in the escaping code for the form helpers, which also affects the rpms shipped in Fedora Project.
Attackers who can inject deliberately malformed unicode strings into the form helpers can defeat the escaping checks and inject arbitrary HTML. This issue has been tagged as CVE-2009-3009. These new rpms will fix this issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected rubygem-actionpack and / or rubygem-activesupport packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520843

http://www.nessus.org/u?9f4961de

http://www.nessus.org/u?21f861ae

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 41634

File Name: fedora_2009-9922.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-activesupport, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-actionpack

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3009

BID: 36278

CWE: 79

FEDORA: 2009-9922