[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 <[email protected]>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
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