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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2830-1 (ruby-i18n - cross-site scripting)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Peter McLarnan discovered that the internationalization component of Ruby on Rails does not properly encode parameters in generated HTML code, resulting in a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This update corrects the underlying vulnerability in the i18n gem, as provided by the ruby-i18n package. The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem. The libi18n-ruby package does not contain the vulnerable code.
Affected Software
Affected Software
ruby-i18n on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.0-3+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.9-1. We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-i18n packages.