CVE-2009-4214

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters, related to HTML::Tokenizer and actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb.

Affected packages (3)

• Debian/railsfrom 0, < 2.2.3-2
• Debian/railsfrom 0, < 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze1
• RubyGems/railsfrom 0, < 2.2.2

References (20)

• ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4214
• PATCHhttp://github.com/rails/rails
• WEBhttp://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5
• WEBhttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1
• WEBhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
• WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
• WEBhttp://secunia.com/advisories/37446
• WEBhttp://secunia.com/advisories/38915
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2009-4214.yml
• WEBhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
• WEBhttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released
• WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260
• WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301
• WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2
• WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3
• WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142
• WEBhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245
• WEBhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352