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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-4214: Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-4214: Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/07/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

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

References

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