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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2830-1 ruby-i18n -- cross-site scripting

Date Reported:

30 Dec 2013

Affected Packages:

ruby-i18n

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4492.

More information:

Peter McLarnan discovered that the internationalization component of Ruby on Rails does not properly encode parameters in generated HTML code, resulting in a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This update corrects the underlying vulnerability in the i18n gem, as provided by the ruby-i18n package.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem; the libi18n-ruby package does not contain the vulnerable code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.0-3+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-i18n packages.