ruby-loofah vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary
Loofah could be made to perform XSS attacks if a crafted SVG
element is republished
Software Description
* ruby-loofah - manipulation and transformation of HTML/XML
documents and fragments
Details
It was discovered that Loofah does not properly sanitize
JavaScript in sanitized output. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to perform XSS attacks. (CVE-2019-15587)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
ruby-loofah - 2.0.3-2+deb9u3build0.16.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.
References
* CVE-2019-15587
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 (Linux/64)
* Origin: BZ&BZ BBS (21:4/110)