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Debian: CVE-2016-6316: rails, ruby-actionpack-3.2 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-6316: rails, ruby-actionpack-3.2 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/25/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.22.3, 4.x before 4.2.7.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.1 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via text declared as "HTML safe" and used as attribute values in tag handlers.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-rails
  • debian-upgrade-ruby-actionpack-3-2

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