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[SECURITY] [DSA 3651-1] rails security update

Posted on 25 August 2016
Debian Security Advisory

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3651-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
August 25, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : rails
CVE ID : CVE-2016-6316
Debian Bug : 834155

Andrew Carpenter of Critical Juncture discovered a cross-site scripting
vulnerability affecting Action View in rails, a web application
framework written in Ruby. Text declared as "HTML safe" will not have
quotes escaped when used as attribute values in tag helpers.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:4.2.7.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

 

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