ALAS-2024-2706


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2706
Advisory Release Date: 2024-12-05 01:02 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-12-19 16:00 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

An issue was discovered in the WEBrick toolkit through 1.8.1 for Ruby. It allows HTTP request smuggling by providing both a Content-Length header and a Transfer-Encoding header, e.g., "GET /admin HTTP/1.1\r\n" inside of a "POST /user HTTP/1.1\r\n" request. NOTE: the supplier's position is "Webrick should not be used in production." (CVE-2024-47220)


Affected Packages:

ruby


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
    ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
    ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
    rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
    rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
    rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
    rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
    ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
    ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.aarch64

i686:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.i686
    ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.i686
    ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.i686
    rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.13.i686
    rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.13.i686
    rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.13.i686
    rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.13.i686
    ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.i686
    ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.i686

noarch:
    rubygems-2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.13.noarch
    rubygems-devel-2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.13.noarch
    rubygem-rake-0.9.6-36.amzn2.0.13.noarch
    ruby-irb-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.noarch
    rubygem-rdoc-4.0.0-36.amzn2.0.13.noarch
    ruby-doc-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.noarch
    rubygem-minitest-4.3.2-36.amzn2.0.13.noarch

src:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.src

x86_64:
    ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
    ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
    ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
    rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
    rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
    rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
    rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
    ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
    ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.13.x86_64