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Debian: DSA-2466-1 Critical: Rails Cross Site Scripting Risk

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2012
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The Debian Security Notice DSA-2466-1 pertains to a vulnerability in Rails that permits XSS, enabling HTML code injection. It's advised to perform an upgrade to maintain security.
Sergey Nartimov discovered that in Rails, a Ruby based framework for web development, when developers generate html options tags manually, user input concatenated with manually bui...

Summary

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and 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/



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Package: rails
CVE ID: CVE-2012-1099

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