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Bug 1232292 (CVE-2015-3225) - CVE-2015-3225 rubygem-rack: Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack normalize_params()
Summary: CVE-2015-3225 rubygem-rack: Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2015-3225
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
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Depends On: 1248923 1248924 1248925 1248926 1248927
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-06-16 12:43 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2023-05-12 09:27 UTC (History)
56 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rubygem-rack-1.6.2, rubygem-rack-1.5.4
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-08-04 06:18:05 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
1-5-deep_params.patch (deleted)
2015-06-16 12:45 UTC, Vasyl Kaigorodov
no flags Details
1-6-deep_params.patch (deleted)
2015-06-16 12:46 UTC, Vasyl Kaigorodov
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2290 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: pcs security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2015-11-19 09:43:53 UTC

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-16 12:43:58 UTC
A potential denial of service vulnerability in Rack was reported.
Carefully crafted requests can cause a `SystemStackError` and potentially cause a denial of service attack.

Patches that fix this are attached.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Ruby upstream developers for reporting this. Upstream acknowledges Tomek Rabczak from the NCC Group as the original reporter.

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-16 12:45:52 UTC
Created attachment 1039440 [details]
1-5-deep_params.patch

Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-16 12:46:10 UTC
Created attachment 1039441 [details]
1-6-deep_params.patch

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2015-06-16 19:35:34 UTC
This is public now:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/729

Comment 4 Ján Rusnačko 2015-07-31 07:20:32 UTC
From upstream advisory:

"Versions Affected:  All.
Not affected:       None.
Fixed Versions:     1.6.2, 1.5.4

Impact 
------ 
Carefully crafted requests can cause a `SystemStackError` and potentially
cause a denial of service attack.

All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. 

Releases 
-------- 
The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations. 

Workarounds 
----------- 
There are no feasible workarounds for this issue. "


External References:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyonrails-security/gcUbICUmKMc/qiCotVZwXrMJ

Comment 8 Ján Rusnačko 2015-07-31 07:27:29 UTC
Created rubygem-rack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1248923]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1248924]

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-08-19 08:09:17 UTC
rubygem-rack-1.6.1-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2015-08-27 23:49:23 UTC
rubygem-rack-1.5.2-5.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 09:37:35 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2290 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2290.html


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