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openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-activesupport-2_1 (rubygem-activesupport-2_1-1321)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42205

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update improves the escaping in the helper code of Ruby on Rails to protect against XSS attacks (CVE-2009-3009) and an information leak (CVE-2009-3086).

Solution

Update the affected rubygem-activesupport-2_1 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=535913

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538319

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42205

File Name: suse_11_1_rubygem-activesupport-2_1-090917.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-activesupport-2_1

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3009, CVE-2009-3086

CWE: 200, 79