Debian: DSA-3651-1: rails security update

Date 25 Aug 2016

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

Andrew Carpenter of Critical Juncture discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting Action View in rails, a web application framework written in Ruby. Text declared as "HTML safe" will not have quotes escaped when used as attribute values in tag helpers.


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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3651-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso
August 25, 2016                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : rails
CVE ID         : CVE-2016-6316
Debian Bug     : 834155

Andrew Carpenter of Critical Juncture discovered a cross-site scripting
vulnerability affecting Action View in rails, a web application
framework written in Ruby. Text declared as "HTML safe" will not have
quotes escaped when used as attribute values in tag helpers.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:4.2.7.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.

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