[DRE-maint] Bug#1141497: ruby-webrick: CVE-2026-38969

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: ruby-webrick
Version: 1.9.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ruby/webrick/issues/198
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for ruby-webrick.

CVE-2026-38969[0]:
| ruby webrick through v1.9.2 WEBrick reparses trailer Content-Length
| into canonical request state, enabling request smuggling.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-38969
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-38969
[1] https://github.com/ruby/webrick/issues/198
[2] https://github.com/ruby/webrick/pull/199

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore