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Posted on 09 March 2016
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3509-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello
March 09, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : rails
CVE ID : CVE-2016-2097 CVE-2016-2098
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rails, a web application
framework written in Ruby. Both vulnerabilities affect Action Pack, which
handles the web requests for Rails.
CVE-2016-2097
Crafted requests to Action View, one of the components of Action Pack,
might result in rendering files from arbitrary locations, including
files beyond the application's view directory. This vulnerability is
the result of an incomplete fix of CVE-2016-0752.
This bug was found by Jyoti Singh and Tobias Kraze from Makandra.
CVE-2016-2098
If a web applications does not properly sanitize user inputs, an
attacker might control the arguments of the render method in a
controller or a view, resulting in the possibility of executing
arbitrary ruby code.
This bug was found by Tobias Kraze from Makandra and joernchen of
Phenoelit.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u2.
For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 2:4.2.5.2-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:4.2.5.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
