Bug 853633 (CVE-2013-6414) - VUL-0: CVE-2013-6414: rubygem-actionpack: Action View DoS
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2013-6414: rubygem-actionpack: Action View DoS
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2013-6414
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
Target Milestone: ---
Deadline: 2014-02-25
Assignee: Security Team bot
QA Contact: Security Team bot
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Whiteboard: maint:released:sle11-sp2:55505 maint:...
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Reported: 2013-12-04 13:26 UTC by Alexander Bergmann
Modified: 2014-05-21 08:14 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Found By: Security Response Team
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Attachments
patch for 3.0.x (1.13 KB, patch)
2013-12-04 13:27 UTC, Alexander Bergmann
Details | Diff
patch for 3.2.x (964 bytes, patch)
2013-12-04 13:27 UTC, Alexander Bergmann
Details | Diff
patch for 4.0.x (977 bytes, patch)
2013-12-04 13:28 UTC, Alexander Bergmann
Details | Diff

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Description Alexander Bergmann 2013-12-04 13:26:09 UTC
CVE-2013-6414 is public via oss-security:

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View

There is a denial of service vulnerability in the header handling component of Action View. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-6414.

Versions Affected:  3.0.0 and all later versions
Not affected:       2.3.x
Fixed Versions:     4.0.2, 3.2.16

Impact 
------ 
Strings sent in specially crafted headers will be cached indefinitely. This can cause the cache to grow infinitely, which will eventually consume all memory on the target machine, causing a denial of service. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the work arounds immediately. 

Releases 
-------- 
The 4.0.2 & 3.2.16 releases are available at the normal locations. 

Workarounds 
----------- 
Users who cannot upgrade may apply this monkey patch as an initializer to work around the issue:

```
ActiveSupport.on_load(:action_view) do
  ActionView::LookupContext::DetailsKey.class_eval do
    class << self
      alias :old_get :get

      def get(details)
        if details[:formats]
          details = details.dup
          syms    = Set.new Mime::SET.symbols
          details[:formats] = details[:formats].select { |v|
            syms.include? v
          }
        end
        old_get details
      end
    end
  end
end
```

Patches 
------- 
To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset. 

* 3-0-header_dos.patch - Patch for 3.0 series 
* 3-1-header_dos.patch - Patch for 3.1 series 
* 3-2-header_dos.patch - Patch for 3.2 series 
* 4-0-header_dos.patch - Patch for 4.0 series 

Please note that only the 4.0.x and 3.2.x series are supported at present.  Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as soon as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability of security fixes for unsupported releases.

Credits 
------- 
Thanks to Toby Hsieh of SlideShare for reporting the issue to us




References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-6414
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036483
Comment 1 Alexander Bergmann 2013-12-04 13:27:30 UTC
Created attachment 570195 [details]
patch for 3.0.x
Comment 2 Alexander Bergmann 2013-12-04 13:27:50 UTC
Created attachment 570196 [details]
patch for 3.2.x
Comment 3 Alexander Bergmann 2013-12-04 13:28:06 UTC
Created attachment 570197 [details]
patch for 4.0.x
Comment 4 Swamp Workflow Management 2013-12-04 23:00:44 UTC
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 6 Swamp Workflow Management 2013-12-06 15:26:39 UTC
The SWAMPID for this issue is 55366.
This issue was rated as moderate.
Please submit fixed packages until 2013-12-20.
When done, please reassign the bug to security-team@suse.de.
Patchinfo will be handled by security team.
Comment 8 Bernhard Wiedemann 2013-12-10 17:00:36 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (853633) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/210399 12.2 / rubygem-actionpack-3_2
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/210404 12.3 / rubygem-actionpack-3_2
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/210405 13.1 / rubygem-actionpack-3_2
Comment 9 Bernhard Wiedemann 2013-12-12 18:00:36 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (853633) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/210711 12.2 / rubygem-actionpack-3_2
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/210713 12.3 / rubygem-actionpack-3_2
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/210714 13.1 / rubygem-actionpack-3_2
Comment 11 Swamp Workflow Management 2013-12-18 13:04:50 UTC
openSUSE-SU-2013:1904-1: An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 853625,853627,853632,853633
CVE References: CVE-2013-0155,CVE-2013-4491,CVE-2013-6414,CVE-2013-6415,CVE-2013-6417
Sources used:
openSUSE 12.3 (src):    rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.12-1.8.1
Comment 12 Swamp Workflow Management 2013-12-18 13:05:49 UTC
openSUSE-SU-2013:1906-1: An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 853625,853627,853632,853633
CVE References: CVE-2013-0155,CVE-2013-4491,CVE-2013-6414,CVE-2013-6415,CVE-2013-6417
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.1 (src):    rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.13-2.4.1
Comment 13 Swamp Workflow Management 2013-12-18 13:06:33 UTC
openSUSE-SU-2013:1907-1: An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 853625,853627,853632,853633
CVE References: CVE-2013-0155,CVE-2013-4491,CVE-2013-6414,CVE-2013-6415,CVE-2013-6417
Sources used:
openSUSE 12.2 (src):    rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.12-3.21.1
Comment 14 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-01-03 21:06:08 UTC
openSUSE-SU-2014:0009-1: An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 846239,853625,853627,853632,853633
CVE References: CVE-2013-4389,CVE-2013-4491,CVE-2013-6414,CVE-2013-6415,CVE-2013-6417
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.1 (src):    rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.13-2.9.1
openSUSE 12.3 (src):    rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.12-1.13.1
openSUSE 12.2 (src):    rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.12-3.26.2
Comment 15 Sebastian Krahmer 2014-01-28 12:16:32 UTC
released
Comment 16 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-01-28 14:50:01 UTC
Update released for: rubygem-actionpack-3_2, rubygem-actionpack-3_2-doc
Products:
SLE-SLMS 1.3 (x86_64)
SLE-STUDIOONSITE 1.3 (x86_64)
SLE-WEBYAST 1.3 (i386, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x86_64)
Comment 17 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-01-28 18:05:57 UTC
SUSE-SU-2014:0152-1: An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 846239,853625,853627,853632,853633
CVE References: CVE-2013-4491,CVE-2013-6414,CVE-2013-6415,CVE-2013-6417
Sources used:
WebYaST 1.3 (src):    rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.12-0.11.1
SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3 (src):    rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.12-0.11.1
SUSE Lifecycle Management Server 1.3 (src):    rubygem-actionpack-3_2-3.2.12-0.11.1
Comment 19 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-02-11 10:22:19 UTC
The SWAMPID for this issue is 56198.
This issue was rated as moderate.
Please submit fixed packages until 2014-02-25.
When done, please reassign the bug to security-team@suse.de.
Patchinfo will be handled by security team.
Comment 21 Bernhard Wiedemann 2014-04-14 19:01:05 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (853633) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/230058 Factory / rubygem-actionpack-3_2
Comment 22 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-05-20 21:54:49 UTC
Update released for: hawk, hawk-debuginfo, hawk-debugsource, hawk-templates
Products:
SLE-DEBUGINFO 11-SP3 (i386, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x86_64)
SLE-HAE 11-SP3 (i386, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x86_64)
Comment 23 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-05-21 01:05:14 UTC
SUSE-SU-2014:0686-1: An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 846239,853625,853627,853632,853633,854060
CVE References: CVE-2013-4389,CVE-2013-4491,CVE-2013-6414,CVE-2013-6415,CVE-2013-6417
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP3 (src):    hawk-0.6.1-0.17.1