Important: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack security update

Synopsis

Important: rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for rh-ror42-rubygem-actionpack is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Description

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

Security Fix(es):

• rubygem-actionpack: render file directory traversal in Action View (CVE-2019-5418)
  
• rubygem-actionpack: denial of service vulnerability in Action View (CVE-2019-5419)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1689159 - CVE-2019-5418 rubygem-actionpack: render file directory traversal in Action View
• BZ - 1689160 - CVE-2019-5419 rubygem-actionpack: denial of service vulnerability in Action View

CVEs

• CVE-2019-5418
• CVE-2019-5419

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important