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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4247-1 ruby-rack-protection -- security update

Date Reported:

16 Jul 2018

Affected Packages:

ruby-rack-protection

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1000119.

More information:

A timing attack was discovered in the function for CSRF token validation of the Ruby rack protection framework.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-rack-protection packages.

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