CVE-2011-2929 Information

Description

The template selection functionality in actionpack/lib/action_view/template/resolver.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.10 and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc6 does not properly handle glob characters which allows remote attackers to render arbitrary views via a crafted URL related to a \filter skipping vulnerability.\

Reference

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/cbbbba6e4f7eaf61?dmode=source&output=gplain http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065109.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731432 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5f94b93279f6d0682fafb237c301302c107a9552