USN-7115-1: Waitress vulnerabilities

19 November 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Waitress.

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Releases

Packages

  • waitress - production-quality pure-Python WSGI server

Details

It was discovered that Waitress could process follow up requests when
receiving a specially crafted message. An attacker could use this issue to
have the server process inconsistent client requests. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2024-49768)

Dylan Jay discovered that Waitress could be lead to write to an unexisting
socket after closing the remote connection. An attacker could use this
issue to increase resource utilization leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-49769)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 24.10
Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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