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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4358-1 ruby-sanitize -- security update

Date Reported:

27 Dec 2018

Affected Packages:

ruby-sanitize

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 893610.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-3740.

More information:

The Shopify Application Security Team discovered that ruby-sanitize, a whitelist-based HTML sanitizer, is prone to a HTML injection vulnerability. A specially crafted HTML fragment can cause to allow nonwhitelisted attributes to be used on a whitelisted HTML element.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-sanitize packages.

For the detailed security status of ruby-sanitize please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ruby-sanitize