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Ubuntu 22.04 & 20.04: USN-7031-2 critical: Puma header overwrite

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2024
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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7031-2 addresses a vulnerability concerning Puma's header handling, impacting several distributions along with steps for corrective measures.
Puma could be made to overwrite headers if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Puma could be made to overwrite headers if it received specially crafted

network traffic.

Software Description:

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

Details:

USN-7031-1 fixed CVE-2024-45614 in Puma for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

This update fixes the CVE for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Puma incorrectly handled parsing certain headers.

A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite header values

set by intermediate proxies by providing duplicate headers containing

underscore characters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network threat header manipulation Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 22.04 Puma

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
puma 5.5.2-2ubuntu2+esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
puma 3.12.4-1ubuntu2+esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7031-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7031-1

CVE-2024-45614

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7031-2

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Topics Covered

security advisory network threat header manipulation Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 22.04 Puma

Package Information

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