National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2932

Overview

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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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfc432574d0b141fd7fe759edfe9b6771dd306bd

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfc432574d0b141fd7fe759edfe9b6771dd306bd

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110822 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110822 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110820 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110819 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110817 CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6

External Source: MLIST

Name: [rubyonrails-security] 20110816 XSS Vulnerability in the escaping function in Ruby on Rails

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/f1d2749773db9f21?dmode=source&output=gplain

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110822 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45917

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45917

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-11386

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-11600

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065189.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-11579

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065114.html