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Debian: DSA-2613-1 Critical: JSON to YAML Parsing Flaw in Rails

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2013
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The Debian security team has issued a recommendation regarding a significant vulnerability found in Ruby on Rails, which influences the handling of JSON and the parsing of YAML content.
Lawrence Pit discovered that Ruby on Rails, a web development framenwork, is vulnerable to a flaw in the parsing of JSON to YAML
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Summary

The vulnerability has been addressed by removing the YAML backend and
adding the OkJson backend.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze6.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.14-6 of the ruby-activesupport-2.3 package.

The 3.2 version of rails as found in Debian wheezy and sid is not
affected by the problem.

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-2013-0333

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