CVE-2009-4214

NameCVE-2009-4214
DescriptionCross-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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2260-1, DSA-2301-1
Debian Bugs558685

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rails (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2fixed
bookworm2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-2~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
railssourcelenny2.1.0-7+lenny1DSA-2301-1
railssourcesqueeze2.3.5-1.2+squeeze1DSA-2301-1
railssource(unstable)2.2.3-2low558685

Notes

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1
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