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Debian: DSA-2887-1 Critical: Ruby Actionmailer DoS Advisory

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2014
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Enhance Ruby Actionmailer to resolve denial-of-service vulnerabilities linked to improperly formatted emails, in accordance with Debian DSA-2887-1 guidelines.
Aaron Neyer discovered that missing input sanitising in the logging component of Ruby Actionmailer could result in denial of service through a malformed e-mail message

Summary

Aaron Neyer discovered that missing input sanitising in the logging
component of Ruby Actionmailer could result in denial of service through
a malformed e-mail message.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.2.6-2+deb7u1.ruby-activesupport-3.2 was updated in a related
change to version 3.2.6-6+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.2.16-3+0 of the rails-3.2 source package.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-actionmailer-3.2 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: ruby-actionmailer-3.2
CVE ID: CVE-2013-4389

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