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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3651-1 (rails - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

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.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)