DSA-4554-1 ruby-loofah -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4554-1 ruby-loofah -- security update

Date Reported:

28 Oct 2019

Affected Packages:

ruby-loofah

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 942894.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-15587.

More information:

It was discovered that ruby-loofah, a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, was susceptible to cross-site scripting.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.3-2+deb9u3.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.3-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-loofah packages.

For the detailed security status of ruby-loofah please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ruby-loofah