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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1887-1] New rails packages fix cross-site scripting

    From Steffen Joeris@1:229/2 to All on Tue Sep 15 18:50:04 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1887-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris
    September 15, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    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:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rails/rails_2.1.0-7.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 17520 866f4225a0496c3a2fbeae5da52b36a9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rails/rails_2.1.0-7.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1203 60d2bd20b3dae00c2675ed1d45ee99af
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rails/rails_2.1.0.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1953333 edcc03e7177e1557653fcb92c90db0d1

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rails/rails_2.1.0-7_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2374598 0a1648b6ff0105c4969f54f8c8bed8af


    These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
    its next update.

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    For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
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