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Debian DSA-2830-1 : ruby-i18n - XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71778

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Synopsis

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

Description

Peter McLarnan discovered that the internationalization component of Ruby on Rails does not properly encode parameters in generated HTML code, resulting in a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This update corrects the underlying vulnerability in the i18n gem, as provided by the ruby-i18n package.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem;
the libi18n-ruby package does not contain the vulnerable code.

Solution

Upgrade the ruby-i18n packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.0-3+deb7u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/ruby-i18n

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2830

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71778

File Name: debian_DSA-2830.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:ruby-i18n, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/30/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4492

BID: 64076

DSA: 2830