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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-215-1 libjson-ruby -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Apr 2015

Affected Packages:

libjson-ruby

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-0269.

More information:

The JSON gem for Ruby allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or bypass the mass assignment protection mechanism via a crafted JSON document that triggers the creation of arbitrary Ruby symbols or certain internal objects, as demonstrated by conducting a SQL injection attack against Ruby on Rails, aka "Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability."

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in libjson-ruby version 1.1.9-1+deb6u1.