Advisory Published

USN-7115-1: Waitress vulnerabilities

First published: Tue Nov 19 2024(Updated: )

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)

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/python3-waitress<3.0.0-1ubuntu0.1
3.0.0-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=24.10
All of
ubuntu/python3-waitress<2.1.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
2.1.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=24.04
All of
ubuntu/python3-waitress<1.4.4-1.1ubuntu1.1
1.4.4-1.1ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=22.04
All of
ubuntu/python3-waitress<1.4.1-1ubuntu0.2
1.4.1-1ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu Ubuntu=20.04

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