CVE-2021-22902

NameCVE-2021-22902
DescriptionThe actionpack ruby gem (a framework for handling and responding to web requests in Rails) before 6.0.3.7, 6.1.3.2 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Mime type parser of Action Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs988214

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rails (PTS)buster2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1+deb10u3fixed
buster (security)2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1+deb10u5fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2fixed
bookworm2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-1fixed
sid, trixie2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-3fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
railssourcestretch(not affected)
railssourcebuster(not affected)
railssource(unstable)2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-1988214

Notes

[buster] - rails <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - rails <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
Fixed by: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b61b94181b2a0cecab49d90d8f259bc8e39b662a (main)
Fixed by: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/446afbd15360a347c923ca775b21a286dcb5297a (v6.0.3.7)

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