MGASA-2024-0348 - Updated ruby-webrick packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Nov 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0348.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2024-47220

An issue was discovered in the WEBrick toolkit through 1.8.1 for Ruby.
It allows HTTP request smuggling by providing both a Content-Length
header and a Transfer-Encoding header, e.g., "GET /admin HTTP/1.1\r\n"
inside of a "POST /user HTTP/1.1\r\n" request. (CVE-2024-47220)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33617
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7057-1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-47220

SRPMS:
- 9/core/ruby-webrick-1.7.0-3.mga9

Mageia 2024-0348: ruby-webrick Security Advisory Updates

An issue was discovered in the WEBrick toolkit through 1.8.1 for Ruby

Summary

An issue was discovered in the WEBrick toolkit through 1.8.1 for Ruby. It allows HTTP request smuggling by providing both a Content-Length header and a Transfer-Encoding header, e.g., "GET /admin HTTP/1.1\r\n" inside of a "POST /user HTTP/1.1\r\n" request. (CVE-2024-47220)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33617

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7057-1

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-47220

Resolution

MGASA-2024-0348 - Updated ruby-webrick packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 9/core/ruby-webrick-1.7.0-3.mga9

Severity
Publication date: 08 Nov 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0348.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-47220

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