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Bug 1301981 (CVE-2015-7581) - CVE-2015-7581 rubygem-actionpack: Object leak vulnerability for wildcard controller routes in Action Pack
Summary: CVE-2015-7581 rubygem-actionpack: Object leak vulnerability for wildcard cont...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-7581
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1301982 1301983 1306277 1306278 1306279 1306281
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-26 13:24 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-06-01 15:43 UTC (History)
37 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rubygem-actionpack 4.2.5.1, rubygem-actionpack 4.1.14.1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A flaw was found in the Action Pack component's caching of controller references. An attacker could use this flaw to cause unbounded memory growth, potentially resulting in a denial of service.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-03-15 21:22:14 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0296 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: rh-ror41 security update 2016-02-24 15:36:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0454 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: ror40 security update 2016-03-16 00:56:17 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-26 13:24:28 UTC 
An object leak vulnerability for wildcard controllers in Action Pack was reported. Users that have a route that contains the string ":controller" are susceptible to objects being leaked globally which can lead to unbounded memory growth. 

External References:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyonrails-security/dthJ5wL69JE/YzPnFelbFQAJ
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/1/25/Rails-5-0-0-beta1-1-4-2-5-1-4-1-14-1-3-2-22-1-and-rails-html-sanitizer-1-0-3-have-been-released/
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-01-26 13:25:53 UTC 
Created rubygem-actionpack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1301983]
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2016-02-05 15:32:44 UTC 
Upstream commit:

4.1 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/98629dfcce8d5ac2b97d0efece41b686daef8f02
4.2 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/710c5ce91acd8b4277dc105e60bc5bda90ccbd8a
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-02-24 10:37:58 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0296 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0296.html
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-02-28 08:26:09 UTC 
rubygem-actionpack-4.2.0-3.fc22, rubygem-activemodel-4.2.0-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-02-28 12:26:05 UTC 
rubygem-actionpack-4.2.3-4.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-15 21:03:45 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2016:0454 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0454.html
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