CVE-2026-34831: Rack has Content-Length mismatch in Rack::Files error responses
Rack::Files#fail sets the Content-Length response header using String#size instead of String#bytesize. When the response body contains multibyte UTF-8 characters, the declared Content-Length is smaller than the number of bytes actually sent on the wire.
Because Rack::Files reflects the requested path in 404 responses, an attacker can trigger this mismatch by requesting a non-existent path containing percent-encoded UTF-8 characters.
This results in incorrect HTTP response framing and may cause response desynchronization in deployments that rely on the incorrect Content-Length value.
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