Rack: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202310-18

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rack, the worst of which can lead to sequence injection in logging compontents.

Affected packages

dev-ruby/rack on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.2.3.1
Unaffected versions >= 2.2.3.1

Background

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rack. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A possible denial of service vulnerability was found in the multipart parsing component of Rack. A sequence injection vulnerability was found which could allow a possible shell escape in the Lint and CommonLogger components of Rack.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Rack users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/rack-2.2.3.1"
 

References

Release date
October 30, 2023

Latest revision
October 30, 2023: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

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