gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200608-20.xml

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<glsa id="200608-20">
  <title>Ruby on Rails: Several vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Ruby on Rails has some weaknesses potentially allowing a Denial of Service
    and maybe the remote execution of arbitrary Ruby scripts.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">rails</product>
  <announced>August 14, 2006</announced>
  <revised>December 13, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>143369</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-ruby/rails" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The Ruby on Rails developers have corrected some weaknesses in
    action_controller/, relative to the handling of the user input and the
    LOAD_PATH variable. A remote attacker could inject arbitrary entries
    into the LOAD_PATH variable and alter the main Ruby on Rails process.
    The security hole has only been partly solved in version 1.1.5. Version
    1.1.6 now fully corrects it.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker that would exploit these weaknesses might cause a
    Denial of Service of the web framework and maybe inject arbitrary Ruby
    scripts.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Ruby on Rails users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-ruby/rails-1.1.6&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/9/rails-1-1-5-mandatory-security-patch-and-other-tidbits">Ruby on Rails original advisory (1.1.5)</uri>
    <uri link="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/10/rails-1-1-6-backports-and-full-disclosure">Ruby on Rails update  (1.1.6)</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4111">CVE-2006-4111</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4112">CVE-2006-4112</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:34:02 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:54:45 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:05:59 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>