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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702830
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2830-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ruby-i18n' package(s) announced via the DSA-2830-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ruby-i18n' package(s) announced via the DSA-2830-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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.

Affected Software/OS:
'ruby-i18n' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-4492
64076
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64076
DSA-2830
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2830
[ruby-security-ann] 20131203 [CVE-2013-4491] Reflective XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/pLrh6DUw998/bLFEyIO4k_EJ
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/
https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/commit/92b57b1e4f84adcdcc3a375278f299274be62445
openSUSE-SU-2013:1930
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00093.html
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2013 Greenbone AG

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