CVE-2009-4214

Name	CVE-2009-4214
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-2260-1, DSA-2301-1
Debian Bugs	558685

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
rails (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	2:4.1.8-1+deb8u9	fixed
	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	2:4.2.7.1-1+deb9u5	fixed
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1+deb10u5	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm	2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-2~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-4	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
rails	source	lenny	2.1.0-7+lenny1		DSA-2301-1
rails	source	squeeze	2.3.5-1.2+squeeze1		DSA-2301-1
rails	source	(unstable)	2.2.3-2	low		558685

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