Debian DSA-2620-1 : rails - several vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 64591

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby on Rails, a Ruby framework for web application development.

- CVE-2013-0276 The blacklist provided by the attr_protected method could be bypassed with crafted requests, having an application-specific impact.

- CVE-2013-0277 In some applications, the +serialize+ helper in ActiveRecord could be tricked into deserializing arbitrary YAML data, possibly leading to remote code execution.

Solution

Upgrade the rails packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze7.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0276

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0277

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/rails

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2620

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 64591

File Name: debian_DSA-2620.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/13/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rails, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0276, CVE-2013-0277

BID: 57896, 57898

DSA: 2620