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openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-actionpack (rubygem-actionpack-1946)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44983

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of rubygems fixes two vulnerabilities :

 - CVE-2008-7248: CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 Rails CSRF protection can be bypassed by using special content-types for a HTTP request.

 - CVE-2009-4214: CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 The method strip_tags does not completely protect against XSS attacks.

Solution

Update the affected rubygem-actionpack package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558879

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564362

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44983

File Name: suse_11_2_rubygem-actionpack-100210.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2010

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-actionpack

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-7248, CVE-2009-4214

CWE: 20, 79