CVE-2011-2932

Publication date 29 August 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed Unicode string, related to a "UTF-8 escaping vulnerability."

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
rails	11.04 natty	Fixed 2.3.5-1.2ubuntu1.1
	10.10 maverick	Fixed 2.3.5-1.1ubuntu0.1
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 2.2.3-2ubuntu0.1
	8.04 LTS hardy	Ignored end of life

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Notes

mdeslaur

in natty and earlier, the affected code is in actionpack/lib/action_view/erb/util.rb

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
rails	Other: bfc4325

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2932