CVE-2018-16470

NameCVE-2018-16470
DescriptionThere is a possible DoS vulnerability in the multipart parser in Rack before 2.0.6. Specially crafted requests can cause the multipart parser to enter a pathological state, causing the parser to use CPU resources disproportionate to the request size.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs913003

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ruby-rack (PTS)bullseye, bullseye (security)2.1.4-3+deb11u2fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)2.2.6.4-1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2.2.7-1.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ruby-racksourceexperimental2.0.6-1913003
ruby-racksource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- ruby-rack <not-affected> (Only affects >= 2.0.4)
Introduced by: https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/c43217a81917de03aa6ceb1aa485ae69b8bb4598 (2.0.4)
Fixed by: https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/37c1160b2360074d20858792f23a7eb3afeabebd (2.0.6)

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