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Brian Mastenbrook discovered that rails, the MVC ruby based framework geared for web application development, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks via malformed strings in the form helper. . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1887-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris September 15, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : rails Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id : CVE-2009-3009 Debian Bug : 545063 Brian Mastenbrook discovered that rails, the MVC ruby based framework geared for web application development, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks via malformed strings in the form helper. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0-7. For the oldstable distribution (etch) security support has been discontinued. It has been reported that rails in oldstable is unusable and several features that are affected by security issues are broken due to programming issues. It is highly recommended to upgrade to the version in stable (lenny). For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages. Upgrade instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny - -------------------------------- Debian (stable) ---------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 17520 866f4225a0496c3a2fbeae5da52b36a9 Size/MD5 checksum: 1203 60d2bd20b3dae00c2675ed1d45ee99af Size/MD5 checksum: 1953333 edcc03e7177e1557653fcb92c90db0d1 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 2374598 0a1648b6ff0105c4969f54f8c8bed8af These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Package info: `apt-cache show ' and https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . Explore the thorough measures taken in Debian's DSA-1887-1 to tackle cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Rails successfully.. Debian Security, Rails Framework, Cross-Site Scripting, Input Fix. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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