QID 357336

Date Published: 2024-03-19

QID 357336: Amazon Linux Security Advisory for pcs : ALAS2-2024-2492

A denial of service (dos) vulnerability was found in rubygem-rack in how it parses content-type.
Carefully crafted content type headers can cause rack's media type parser to take much longer than expected, leading to a possible denial of service vulnerability. (
( CVE-2024-25126) a denial of service (dos) vulnerability was found in rubygem-rack in how it parses range header.
Carefully crafted range headers can cause a server to respond with an unexpectedly large response.
Responding with such large responses could lead to a denial of service issue. (
( CVE-2024-26141) a denial of service (dos) vulnerability was found in rubygem-rack in how it parses rack header.
Carefully crafted headers can cause header parsing in rack to take longer than expected resulting in a possible denial of service issue.
Accept and forwarded headers are impacted. (
( CVE-2024-26146)



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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a securitybreach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
  • Solution
    Please refer to Amazon advisory: ALAS2-2024-2492 for affected packages and patching details, or update with your package manager.
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    ALAS2-2024-2492 amazon linux 2 URL Logo alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2492.html