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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
Aug 25, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-railsdebian-upgrade-ruby-actionpack-3-2
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