Fedora 20 : rubygem-actionpack-4.0.0-2.fc20 (2013-23636)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72867

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Includes security patches for :

- CVE-2013-6417 - Incomplete fix to CVE-2013-0155 (Unsafe Query Generation Risk)

- CVE-2013-4491 - Reflective XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails

- CVE-2013-6415 - XSS Vulnerability in number_to_currency

- CVE-2013-6414 - Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View

- CVE-2013-6416 - XSS Vulnerability in simple_format helper

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 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72867

File Name: fedora_2013-23636.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/7/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, 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: 12/20/2013

Reference Information

BID: 64071, 64074, 64076, 64077, 64106

FEDORA: 2013-23636

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