Ruby-Rack Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Found in Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-6837-1
Summary
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 23.10 Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Rack. Software Description: - ruby-rack: modular Ruby webserver interface Details: It was discovered that Rack incorrectly handled Multipart MIME parsing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Rack to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-27530) It was discovered that Rack incorrectly parsed certain media types. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Rack to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-25126) It was discovered that Rack incorrectly handled certain Range headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Rack to create large responses, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-26141) It was discovered that Rac...
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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ruby-rack 2.2.7-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 23.10 ruby-rack 2.2.4-3ubuntu0.2 After a standard system update you need to restart any applications using Rack to make all the necessary changes.
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6837-1
CVE-2023-27530, CVE-2024-25126, CVE-2024-26141, CVE-2024-26146
Package Information
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-rack/2.2.7-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-rack/2.2.4-3ubuntu0.2