Advisories » MGASA-2020-0423

Updated ruby packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Nov 2020
Modification date: 13 Nov 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-25613

Description

A potential HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in WEBrick was reported.
WEBrick was too tolerant against an invalid Transfer-Encoding header. This may
lead to inconsistent interpretation between WEBrick and some HTTP proxy
servers, which may allow the attacker to “smuggle” a request (CVE-2020-25613).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27401
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/09/29/http-request-smuggling-cve-2020-25613/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25613

SRPMS

7/core

• ruby-2.5.8-22.mga7