CVE-2006-6303 (GCVE-0-2006-6303)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-12-06 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:19
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The read_multipart function in cgi.rb in Ruby before 1.8.5-p2 does not properly detect boundaries in MIME multipart content, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted HTTP requests, a different issue than CVE-2006-5467.
References
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-394-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/31090 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/27576 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2384798830/index.html third-party-advisory, x_refsource_JVN
http://secunia.com/advisories/23268 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218287 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/04/another-dos-vulnerability-in-cgi-library/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/23165 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10529 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30734 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017363 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157048 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ruby/lib/cgi.rb.diff?f=h&only_with_tag=MAIN&r1=text&tr1=1.92&r2=text&tr2=1.91 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4855 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:225 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-21.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/23454 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21441 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
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