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Fedora 22 : rubygem-activesupport-4.2.0-2.fc22 (2015-10538)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84478

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes for :

CVE-2015-3226 Escape HTML entities in JSON keys

CVE-2015-3227 XML documents that are too deep can cause an stack overflow, which in turn will cause a potential DoS attack.

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-activesupport package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7e9c7f6f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84478

File Name: fedora_2015-10538.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-activesupport, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3226, CVE-2015-3227

FEDORA: 2015-10538