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Bug 677626 (CVE-2011-0446)

Summary:	CVE-2011-0446 rubygem-actionpack: Multiple XSS flaws via crafted name or email value in the mail_to_helper
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	hbrock, mastahnke, sseago, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vondruch
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	677628, 677629
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-15 11:54:11 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-0446 to
the following vulnerability:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to
helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when
javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject
arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email
value.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0446
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/f02a48ede8315f81?tvc=2

Upstream patch:
[3] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/attach/365b8a23b76a6b4a/2-3-mailto.patch?part=3
    (against v2.3 version)
[4] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/attach/365b8a23b76a6b4a/3-0-mailto.patch?part=4
    (against v3.0 version)

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-15 11:58:23 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the rubygem-actionpack package,
as shipped with Fedora release of 13 and 14.

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This issue affects the version of the rubygem-actionpack package,
as present within EPEL-5 repository.

Please schedule an update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-15 11:59:35 UTC

Created rubygem-actionpack tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 677628]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 677629]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-11-16 04:17:00 UTC

rubygem-actionpack-2.3.18-1.el5, rubygem-activerecord-2.3.18-1.el5, rubygem-activesupport-2.3.18-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.