Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1856-01 - Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller framework for web application development. Action View implements the view component. Security Fix: 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 attack.
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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 <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
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