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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.1.1.2012.2301
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2301-2)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'rails' package(s) announced via the DSA-2301-2 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'rails' package(s) announced via the DSA-2301-2 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rails, the Ruby web application framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-4214

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability had been found in the strip_tags function. An attacker may inject non-printable characters that certain browsers will then evaluate. This vulnerability only affects the oldstable distribution (lenny).

CVE-2011-2930

A SQL injection vulnerability had been found in the quote_table_name method that could allow malicious users to inject arbitrary SQL into a query.

CVE-2011-2931

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability had been found in the strip_tags helper. An parsing error can be exploited by an attacker, who can confuse the parser and may inject HTML tags into the output document.

CVE-2011-3186

A newline (CRLF) injection vulnerability had been found in response.rb. This vulnerability allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the Content-Type header.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0-7+lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.14.

We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'rails' package(s) on Debian 5, Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

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