ALAS-2020-1451


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1451
Advisory Release Date: 2020-11-14 01:23 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-11-16 20:47 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

An issue was discovered in Ruby through 2.5.8, 2.6.x through 2.6.6, and 2.7.x through 2.7.1. WEBrick, a simple HTTP server bundled with Ruby, had not checked the transfer-encoding header value rigorously. An attacker may potentially exploit this issue to bypass a reverse proxy (which also has a poor header check), which may lead to an HTTP Request Smuggling attack. (CVE-2020-25613)


Affected Packages:

ruby24


Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby24 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    rubygem24-net-telnet-0.1.1-2.13.amzn1.i686
    ruby24-devel-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-psych-2.2.2-2.13.amzn1.i686
    ruby24-debuginfo-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.i686
    ruby24-libs-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-xmlrpc-0.2.1-2.13.amzn1.i686
    ruby24-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-json-2.0.4-2.13.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-bigdecimal-1.3.2-2.13.amzn1.i686
    rubygem24-io-console-0.4.6-2.13.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    ruby24-doc-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.noarch
    rubygems24-2.6.14.4-2.13.amzn1.noarch
    rubygem24-rdoc-5.0.1-2.13.amzn1.noarch
    rubygem24-power_assert-0.4.1-2.13.amzn1.noarch
    rubygem24-minitest5-5.10.1-2.13.amzn1.noarch
    rubygems24-devel-2.6.14.4-2.13.amzn1.noarch
    ruby24-irb-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.noarch
    rubygem24-did_you_mean-1.1.0-2.13.amzn1.noarch
    rubygem24-test-unit-3.2.3-2.13.amzn1.noarch

src:
    ruby24-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    ruby24-devel-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-json-2.0.4-2.13.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-io-console-0.4.6-2.13.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-xmlrpc-0.2.1-2.13.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-bigdecimal-1.3.2-2.13.amzn1.x86_64
    ruby24-debuginfo-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-net-telnet-0.1.1-2.13.amzn1.x86_64
    rubygem24-psych-2.2.2-2.13.amzn1.x86_64
    ruby24-libs-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.x86_64
    ruby24-2.4.10-2.13.amzn1.x86_64