SB20250227238 - SUSE update for ruby2.5

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-47220)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request containing both a Content-Length header and a Transfer-Encoding header to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.

Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.

2) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-49761)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when parsing an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2025/suse-su-20250736-1/