GLSA 202310-18: Rack: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity:high
Title:Rack: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date:10/30/2023
Bugs: #884795
ID:202310-18

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rack, the worst of which can lead to sequence injection in logging compontents.

Background

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
dev-ruby/rack < 2.2.3.1 >= 2.2.3.1 All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rack. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A possible denial of service vulnerability was found in the multipart parsing component of Rack. A sequence injection vulnerability was found which could allow a possible shell escape in the Lint and CommonLogger components of Rack.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Rack users should upgrade to the latest version:

          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/rack-2.2.3.1"
        

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202310-18.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

Thank you!