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Debian: DSA-2655-1 Critical: Ruby on Rails XSS & DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2013
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To prevent XSS vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails, implement strong input validation, use Rails' helpers, and apply throttling for DoS threats to secure applications
Several cross-site-scripting and denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby on Rails, a Ruby framework for web application development

Summary

Several cross-site-scripting and denial of service vulnerabilities were
discovered in Ruby on Rails, a Ruby framework for web application
development.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze8.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid),
these problems have been fixed in the version 3.2.6-5 of
ruby-activerecord-3.2, version 2.3.14-6 of ruby-activerecord-2.3,
version 2.3.14-7 of ruby-activesupport-2.3, version 3.2.6-6 of
ruby-actionpack-3.2 and in version 2.3.14-5 of ruby-actionpack-2.3.

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-2011-2932 CVE-2012-3464 CVE-2012-3465 CVE-2013-1854

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