Debian DSA-2655-1 : rails - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65727

Synopsis

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

Description

Several cross-site-scripting and denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby on Rails, a Ruby framework for web application development.

Solution

Upgrade the rails packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze8.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2655

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65727

File Name: debian_DSA-2655.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/29/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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: 3/28/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2932, CVE-2012-3464, CVE-2012-3465, CVE-2013-1854, CVE-2013-1855, CVE-2013-1857

BID: 54957, 54958, 58549, 58552, 58555

DSA: 2655