Fedora 10 : rubygem-actionpack-2.1.1-5.fc10 (2009-12966)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43091

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Two security issues are found on activepack shipped on Fedora 10. One bug is that there is a weakness in the strip_tags function in ruby on rails (bug 542786, CVE-2009-4214). Another one is a possibility to circumvent protection against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks (bug 544329). This new rpm will fix these issues.

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542786

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544329

http://www.nessus.org/u?f463fd3a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43091

File Name: fedora_2009-12966.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/10/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-actionpack, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2009

Reference Information

BID: 36278, 37142

FEDORA: 2009-12966