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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-20
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Ruby on Rails: Several vulnerabilities
Date: August 14, 2006
Bugs: #143369
ID: 200608-20
Synopsis
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Ruby on Rails has some weaknesses potentially allowing a Denial of
Service and maybe the remote execution of arbitrary Ruby scripts.
Background
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Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-ruby/rails < 1.1.6 >= 1.1.6
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The Ruby on Rails developers have corrected some weaknesses in
action_controller/, relative to the handling of the user input and the
LOAD_PATH variable. A re...
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