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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-5379: Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-5379: Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/19/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Rails before 1.2.4, as used for Ruby on Rails, allows remote attackers and ActiveResource servers to determine the existence of arbitrary files and read arbitrary XML files via the Hash.from_xml (Hash#from_xml) method, which uses XmlSimple (XML::Simple) unsafely, as demonstrated by reading passwords from the Pidgin (Gaim) .purple/accounts.xml file.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-ruby-rails

References

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