CVE-2024-49769

Publication date 29 October 2024

Last updated 19 November 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. When a remote client closes the connection before waitress has had the opportunity to call getpeername() waitress won't correctly clean up the connection leading to the main thread attempting to write to a socket that no longer exists, but not removing it from the list of sockets to attempt to process. This leads to a busy-loop calling the write function. A remote attacker could run waitress out of available sockets with very little resources required. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
waitress 24.10 oracular
Fixed 3.0.0-1ubuntu0.1
24.04 LTS noble
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.4.4-1.1ubuntu1.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.4.1-1ubuntu0.2
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored fix would unavoidably negatively impact other packages
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored fix would unavoidably negatively impact other packages

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Notes

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On bionic and earlier, asyncore was not bundled within waitress. Fixing these versions could break other packages that rely on asyncore.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H