Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in Rack, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Rack Insecure File Access Security Issue
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA52033
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RELEASE DATE:
2013-02-08
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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Rack, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information.
The security issue is caused due to the application using files in an
insecure manner, which can be exploited to disclose potentially
sensitive information via symlink attacks.
The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.4.5 and 1.5.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.5 or 1.5.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Ben Murphy
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rack-devel/bf937jPZxJM/1s6x95vIhmAJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rack-devel/mZsuRonD7G8/DpZIOmMLbOgJ
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