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CVE-2006-5467

Published: 27/10/2006 Updated: 11/10/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

The cgi.rb CGI library for Ruby 1.8 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an HTTP request with a multipart MIME body that contains an invalid boundary specifier, as demonstrated using a specifier that begins with a "-" instead of "--" and contains an inconsistent ID.

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Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: ruby1.8 vulnerability
An error was found in Ruby’s CGI library that did not correctly check for the end of multipart MIME requests Using a crafted HTTP request, a remote user could cause a denial of service, where Ruby CGI applications would end up in a loop, monopolizing a CPU ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-1235-1 ruby1.8 -- denial of service
A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in the CGI library included with Ruby, the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 182-7sarge5 We recommend that you upgrade your ruby18 package ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-1234-1 ruby1.6 -- denial of service
A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in the CGI library included with Ruby, the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 168-12sarge3 We recommend that you upgrade your ruby16 package ...

References

CWE-399http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-October/001946.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20777http://secunia.com/advisories/22615http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-371-1http://secunia.com/advisories/22624http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.030-ruby.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0729.htmlhttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017194http://secunia.com/advisories/22761ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-Phttp://secunia.com/advisories/22929http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-12.xmlhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23040http://secunia.com/advisories/23344http://secunia.com/advisories/22932http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.htmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:192http://secunia.com/advisories/25402http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4244http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4245http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1234http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1235https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10185https://usn.ubuntu.com/371-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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