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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3651-1 (rails - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Andrew Carpenter of Critical Juncture discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting Action View in rails, a web application framework written in Ruby. Text declared as HTML safe will not have quotes escaped when used as attribute values in tag helpers.
Affected Software
Affected Software
rails 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 (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u4. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:4.2.7.1-1. We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.