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FreeBSD Ports: rubygem-rails
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following packages are affected: rubygem-rails, rubygem-actionpack, rubygem-activesupport CVE-2012-3463 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_tag_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the prompt field to the select_tag helper. CVE-2012-3464 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a ' (quote) character. CVE-2012-3465 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb in the strip_tags helper in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via malformed HTML markup.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
References
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/fV3QUToSMSw/eHBSF
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/kKGNeMrnmiY/r2yM7
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/FgVEtBajcTY/tYLS1
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-releas
- http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/31db9a18-e289-11e1-a57d-080027a27dbf.html