[rails] Several vulnerabilities allowing for file disclosure and theft of user credentials
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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rails (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Dapper |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Edgy |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Feisty |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Gutsy |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: rails
References:
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Quoting:
"candlerb found that ActiveResource, when processing responses using the Hash.from_xml() function, does not properly sanitize filenames (CVE-2007-5380). The session management functionality allowed the "session_id" to be set in the URL (CVE-2007-5380). BCC discovered that the to_json() function does not properly sanitize input before returning it to the user (CVE-2007-3227).
[...]
Unauthenticated remote attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to determine the existence of files or to read the contents of arbitrary XML files; conduct session fixation attacks and gain unauthorized access; and to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site by enticing a user to browse a specially crafted URL."
CVE-2007-6077 (bug #173203) should be fixed if/when fixes for these three are pushed to Dapper/Edgy/Feisty.