Bug 744706 (CVE-2010-3933)

Summary:	CVE-2010-3933 rubygem-activerecord: Improper nested attributes management
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	hbrock, mastahnke, mtasaka, sseago, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vondruch
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-10 09:10:51 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-3933 to
the following vulnerability:

Ruby on Rails 2.3.9 and 3.0.0 does not properly handle nested attributes, which allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary records by changing the names of parameters for form inputs. 

References:
[1] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/10/15/security-vulnerability-in-nested-attributes-code-in-ruby-on-rails-2-3-9-and-3-0-0
[2] http://securitytracker.com/id?1024624
[3] http://secunia.com/advisories/41930
[4] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2719
[5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386377

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-10 09:13:22 UTC

This issue did not affect the versions of the rubygem-activerecord package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14 and 15 (the current rubygem-activerecord package versions in these releases already contain relevant upstream patches).

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This issue did not affect the version of the rubygem-activerecord package, as present within EPEL-5 repository. That rubygem-activerecord package version does not contain affected code part yet.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-11-16 04:17:10 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.