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Debian: DSA-2783-2 Critical: Librack-Ruby DoS Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2013
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA-2783-3 relates to multiple security flaws in librack-ruby, which affect various installations of Redmine.
The update of librack-ruby in DSA-2783-1 also addressed CVE-2013-0183

Summary

For reference, the original advisory text follows:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Rack, a modular Ruby
webserver interface. The Common Vulnerabilites and Exposures project
identifies the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2011-5036

Rack computes hash values for form parameters without restricting
the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)
by sending many crafted parameters.

CVE-2013-0184

Vulnerability in Rack::Auth::AbstractRequest allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors.

CVE-2013-0263

Rack::Session::Cookie allows remote attackers to guess the
session cookie, gain privileges, and execute arbitrary code via a
timing attack involving am HMAC comparison function that does not
run in constant time.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.0-4+squeeze1.

The stable, testing and unstable distributi...

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Package: librack-ruby
CVE ID: CVE-2011-5036 CVE-2013-0183 CVE-2013-0184 CVE-2013-0263

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