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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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 41634
File Name: fedora_2009-9922.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 9/28/2009
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-actionpack, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-activesupport, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11
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