ruby-sanitize vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
* Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Summary
Sanitize could be made to perform XSS attacks if it received
specially crafted input.
Software Description
* ruby-sanitize - allowlist-based HTML and CSS sanitizer
Details
Micha** Bentkowski discovered that Sanitize did not properly
sanitize some math or svg HTML under certain circumstances. A
remote attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2020-4054)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
ruby-sanitize - 4.6.6-2.1~0.20.04.1
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-2020-4054
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 (Linux/64)
* Origin: BZ&BZ BBS (21:4/110)