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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64961
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-9799 (rubygem-activesupport)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to rubygem-activesupport;announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-9799.;Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to rubygem-activesupport
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-9799.
Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional.

Vulnerability Insight:
Update Information:

A vulnerability is found on Ruby on Rails in the escaping code for the form
helpers, which also affects the rpms shipped in Fedora Project. Attackers who
can inject deliberately malformed unicode strings into the form helpers can
defeat the escaping checks and inject arbitrary HTML. This issue has been tagged
as CVE-2009-3009. These new rpms will fix this issue.
ChangeLog:

* Mon Sep 21 2009 Mamoru Tasaka - 2.1.1-2

- Patch for CVE-2009-3009 (bug 520843)

Solution:
Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update rubygem-activesupport' at the command line.

CVSS Score:
4.3

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3009
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
BugTraq ID: 36278
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36278
Debian Security Information: DSA-1887 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57cd7794e1d1b4?dmode=source
http://www.osvdb.org/57666
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022824
http://secunia.com/advisories/36600
http://secunia.com/advisories/36717
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:017 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544
XForce ISS Database: rubyonrails-unicode-xss(53036)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53036
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