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Ubuntu: USN-5910-1 (CVE-2022-44571): Rack vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5910-1 (CVE-2022-44571): 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

There is a denial of service vulnerability in the Content-Disposition parsingcomponent of Rack fixed in 2.0.9.2, 2.1.4.2, 2.2.4.1, 3.0.0.1. This could allow an attacker to craft an input that can cause Content-Disposition header parsing in Rackto take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial ofservice attack vector. This header is used typically used in multipartparsing. Any applications that parse multipart posts using Rack (virtuallyall Rails applications) are impacted.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby-rack

References

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