• Loofah vulnerability

    From bugz_ubuntu@21:4/110 to Ubuntu Users on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 20:10:01
    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

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    * Origin: BZ&BZ BBS (21:4/110)