SUSE-SU-2013:0194-1: moderate: Security update for hawk

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   SUSE Security Update: Security update for hawk
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-SU-2013:0194-1
Rating:             moderate
References:         #765097 #766791 #775649 #775653 
Cross-References:   CVE-2012-3464 CVE-2012-3465
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2
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   An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes
   is now available. It includes one version update.

Description:


   hawk has been rebuilt to include updated ruby gems that
   contain fixes for  security issues.

   rubygem-activesupport-2_3 has been updated to fix the
   following security  issue:

   * This update also the HTML escaping code in Ruby on
   Rails. CVE-2012-3464 has been assigned to this issue.

   rubygem-actionpack-2_3 has been updated to fix the
   following security  issues:

   * CVE-2012-3465: Malformed HTML is not correctly
   handled when validating with the strip_tags helper which
   could result in Cross-site Scripting issues.
   * CVE-2012-2694, CVE-2012-2660: Unsafe query generation
   was possible using NULL queries.

   The included GEM archive package was also adjusted to
   contain the security  fixes available in the unpacked ruby
   tree.

   Security Issue references:

   * CVE-2012-3464
   <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3464
   >
   * CVE-2012-3465
   <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3465
   >


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch sleshasp2-hawk-7078

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 0.5.2]:

      hawk-0.5.2-0.38.16
      hawk-templates-0.5.2-0.38.16


References:

   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3464.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3465.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/765097
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/766791
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/775649
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/775653
   http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=6a53a5d8c6e366542686771cc89925c3



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