Several cross-site-scripting and denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby on Rails, a Ruby framework for web application development.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze8. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in the version 3.2.6-5 of ruby-activerecord-3.2, version 2.3.14-6 of ruby-activerecord-2.3, version 2.3.14-7 of ruby-activesupport-2.3, version 3.2.6-6 of ruby-actionpack-3.2 and in version 2.3.14-5 of ruby-actionpack-2.3. We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.

Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework in Ruby for writing real-world applications.

rails on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2655.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25