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Fedora 42: rubygem-rack Critical Denial Of Service Fix 2025

Linuxsecurity •LinuxSecurity Advisories • November 13, 2025

Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call. Update Information : Update to Rack 2.2.21

Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing

web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in

the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web

servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called

middleware) into a single method call.

Update to Rack 2.2.21

* Tue Nov 4 2025 Vt Ondruch - 1:2.2.21-1 - Update to Rack 2.2.21 - CVE-2024-25126: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Content-Type Parsing Resolves: rhbz#2265596 - CVE-2024-26141: Possible DoS Vulnerability with Range Header in Rack Resolves: rhbz#2265597 - CVE-2024-26146: Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Header Parsing Resolves: rhbz#2265598 - CVE-2025-61780: Improper handling of headers in `Rack::Sendfile` may allow proxy bypass Resolves: rhbz#2403530 - CVE-2025-61919: Unbounded read in `Rack::Request` form parsing can lead to memory exhaustion Resolves: rhbz#2403525 - CVE-2025-59830: Rack QueryParser has an unsafe default allowing params_limit bypass via semicolon-separated parameters Resolves: rhbz#2402988 - CVE-2025-32441: Rack Session Reuse Vulnerability Resolves: rhbz#2365053 - CVE-2025-46727: Unbounded-Parameter DoS in Rack::QueryParser Resolves: rhbz#2365000

[ 1 ] Bug #2164714 - CVE-2022-44571 rubygem-rack: denial of service in Content-Disposition parsing [ 2 ] Bug #2164719 - CVE-2022-44570 rubygem-rack: denial of service in Content-Disposition parsing [ 3 ] Bug #2164722 - CVE-2022-44572 rubygem-rack: denial of service in Content-Disposition parsing [ 4 ] Bug #2176477 - CVE-2023-27530 rubygem-rack: Denial of service in Multipart MIME parsing [ 5 ] Bug #2179649 - CVE-2023-27539 rubygem-rack: denial of service in header parsing [ 6 ] Bug #2265593 - CVE-2024-25126 rubygem-rack: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Content-Type Parsing [ 7 ] Bug #2265594 - CVE-2024-26141... Read the Full Advisory

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-eae2126736' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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Critical and Moderate DoS Vulnerabilities in Ruby's Rack Library Addressed Multiple vulnerabilities affecting the Rack library, used for developing Ruby web applications, have been reported. Fedora 42 and 43 released updates to address a critical denial of service vulnerability in Rack 2.2.21 and a moderate denial of service vulnerability in Rack 3.1.19, respectively. Additionally, Fedora 41 highlighted critical log injection and DoS risks in an earlier version of the library. 3 sources 50

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