Debian: DSA-2301-1: rails security update
Summary
CVE-2009-4214
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability had been found in the
strip_tags function. An attacker may inject non-printable characters that certain browsers will then evaluate. This vulnerability only
affects the oldstable distribution (lenny).
CVE-2011-2930
A SQL injection vulnerability had been found in the quote_table_name
method could allow malicious users to inject arbitrary SQL into a
query.
CVE-2011-2931
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability had been found in the
strip_tags helper. An parsing error can be exploited by an attacker,
who can confuse the parser and may inject HTML tags into the output
document.
CVE-2011-3186
A newline (CRLF) injection vulnerability had been found in
response.rb. This vulnerability allows an attacker to inject arbitrary
HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the
Content-Type header.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.0-7+lenny1.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.14.
We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org