[LRUG] Serious Vulnerability in all versions of Rails. Upgrade now.

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

as of yesterday the metasploit scanner seemed to have a bug.
maybe that's been fixed now.

Alternatively @beng pointed out you could use the exploit to patch a
client's servers for them.
On 11 Jan, 2013 4:03 PM, "Najaf Ali" <ali at happybearsoftware.com> wrote:

> As I've been telling all past clients/projects, if you don't upgrade your
> web-facing boxes right now, the vulnerability is such that I can go ahead
> do it for you :P
>
> -Ali
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Michael Baldry <michael at brightbits.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> This vulnerability is now in metasploit. this basically means any 13 year
>> old with a computer can type a command that will drop them to a console on
>> YOUR server.
>>
>> https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/1281
>>
>> patch now.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Frederick Cheung <
>> frederick.cheung at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9 Jan 2013, at 16:38, Jonathan del Strother <maillist at steelskies.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > and if this is news to you, you probably ought to subscribe to the
>>> > rubyonrails-security group so you get emailed instantly whenever they
>>> > announce anything like this.
>>> >
>>> > I'm not sure if it's intentional, but it seems like their security
>>> > issues are alway announced late evening in UK time. I always seem to
>>> > be staying up late fixing stuff as a result...
>>>
>>> Aaron Patterson does a lot of those and he's on PST, and Michael
>>> Koziarski is in New Zealand, so it's probably more about fitting in with
>>> their day.
>>>
>>> Fred
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