USN-6597-1: Puma vulnerability

25 January 2024

Puma could be made to consume resources if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Releases

Packages

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

Details

It was discovered that Puma incorrectly handled parsing chunked transfer
encoding bodies. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Puma to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 23.04

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

References

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