USN-7031-2: Puma vulnerability

24 September 2024

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

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Releases

Packages

  • 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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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.

References

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