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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2260-1 rails -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

14 Jun 2011

Affected Packages:

rails

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 545063, Bug 558685.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-3086, CVE-2009-4214.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby on Rails, a web application framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2009-3086

  The cookie store may be vulnerable to a timing attack, potentially allowing remote attackers to forge message digests.

• CVE-2009-4214

  A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the strip_tags function allows remote user-assisted attackers to inject arbitrary web script.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-7+lenny0.2.

For the other distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.3-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.