DSA-2247-1 rails -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2247-1 rails -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

31 May 2011

Affected Packages:

rails

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 614864.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0446, CVE-2011-0447.

More information:

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

• CVE-2011-0446

  Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities when JavaScript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

• CVE-2011-0447

  Rails does not properly validate HTTP requests that contain an X-Requested-With header, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0-7+lenny0.1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze0.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.11-0.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.