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Debian DSA-1887-1 : rails - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44752

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Synopsis

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

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the rails packages.

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 stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0-7.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44752

File Name: debian_DSA-1887.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rails, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3009

BID: 36278

CWE: 79

DSA: 1887