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rubygem-rails -- multiple vulnerabilities

Affected packages
rubygem-rails < 3.2.8
rubygem-actionpack < 3.2.8
rubygem-activesupport < 3.2.8

Details

VuXML ID 31db9a18-e289-11e1-a57d-080027a27dbf
Discovery 2012-08-08
Entry 2012-08-10

Rails core team reports:

This version contains three important security fixes, please upgrade immediately.

One of security fixes impacts all users and is related to HTML escaping code. The other two fixes impacts people using select_tag's prompt option and strip_tags helper from ActionPack.

CVE-2012-3463 Potential XSS Vulnerability in select_tag prompt.

CVE-2012-3464 Potential XSS Vulnerability in the HTML escaping code.

CVE-2012-3465 XSS Vulnerability in strip_tags.

[source]

References

CVE Name CVE-2012-3463
CVE Name CVE-2012-3464
CVE Name CVE-2012-3465
URL http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/
URL https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/FgVEtBajcTY/tYLS1JJTu38J
URL https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/fV3QUToSMSw/eHBSFOUYHpYJ
URL https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/kKGNeMrnmiY/r2yM7xy-G48J

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