[RHSA-2016:1856-01] Moderate: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Moderate: rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1856-01

Product: Red Hat Software Collections

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1856.html

Issue date: 2016-09-13

CVE Names: CVE-2016-6316

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1. Summary:

 

An update for rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview is now available for Red Hat

Software Collections.

 

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

the CVE link(s) in the References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

 

3. Description:

 

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web

application development. Action View implements the view component.

 

Security Fix(es):

 

* It was discovered that Action View tag helpers did not escape quotes when

using strings declared as HTML safe as attribute values. A remote attacker

could use this flaw to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.

(CVE-2016-6316)

 

Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby on Rails project for reporting this

issue. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Carpenter (Critical Juncture) as the

original reporter.

 

4. Solution:

 

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes

described in this advisory, refer to:

 

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

 

All running applications using rh-ror41-rubygem-actionviewmust be restarted

for this update to take effect.

 

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

1365008 - CVE-2016-6316 rubygem-actionview: cross-site scripting flaw in Action View

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):

 

Source:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.src.rpm

 

noarch:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm

 

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6):

 

Source:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.src.rpm

 

noarch:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm

 

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):

 

Source:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.src.rpm

 

noarch:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm

 

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

 

Source:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.src.rpm

 

noarch:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el6.noarch.rpm

 

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):

 

Source:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm

 

noarch:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm

 

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1):

 

Source:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm

 

noarch:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm

 

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2):

 

Source:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm

 

noarch:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm

 

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):

 

Source:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.src.rpm

 

noarch:

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm

rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc-4.1.5-6.el7.noarch.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

 

7. References:

 

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6316

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.

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