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Ubuntu: USN-5910-1 (CVE-2022-44570): Rack vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5910-1 (CVE-2022-44570): Rack vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/09/2023
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
10/24/2023

Description

A denial of service vulnerability in the Range header parsing component of Rack >= 1.5.0. A Carefully crafted input can cause the Range header parsing component in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that deal with Range requests (such as streaming applications, or applications that serve files) may be impacted.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby-rack

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