USN-6682-1: Puma vulnerabilities

7 March 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Puma.

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Releases

Packages

  • puma - threaded HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack applications

Details

ZeddYu Lu discovered that Puma incorrectly handled parsing certain headers.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an HTTP Request
Smuggling attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-11076)

It was discovered that Puma incorrectly handled parsing certain headers.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an HTTP Request
Smuggling attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-11077)

Jean Boussier discovered that Puma might not always release resources
properly after handling HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to read sensitive information. (CVE-2022-23634)

It was discovered that Puma incorrectly handled certain malformed headers.
A remote attacker could use this issue to perform an HTTP Request Smuggling
attack. (CVE-2022-24790)

Ben Kallus discovered that Puma incorrectly handled parsing certain headers.
A remote attacker could use this issue to perform an HTTP Request Smuggling
attack. (CVE-2023-40175)

Bartek Nowotarski discovered that Puma incorrectly handled parsing certain
encoded content. A remote attacker could possibly use this to cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2024-21647)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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