SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : rubygem-puma (SUSE-SU-2022:1515-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 160523

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1515-1 advisory.

rubygem-puma was updated to version 4.3.11:

* CVE-2021-29509: Adjusted an incomplete fix for allows Denial of Service (DoS) (bsc#1188527)
* CVE-2021-41136: Fixed request smuggling if HTTP header value contains the LF character (bsc#1191681)
* CVE-2022-23634: Fixed information leak between requests (bsc#1196222)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected ruby2.5-rubygem-puma and / or ruby2.5-rubygem-puma-doc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 160523

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1515-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/5/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23634

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-rubygem-puma, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29509, CVE-2021-41136, CVE-2022-23634

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1515-1

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