CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6303
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• yukihiro matsumoto ruby 1.8
• yukihiro matsumoto ruby 1.8.1
• yukihiro matsumoto ruby 1.8.2
• yukihiro matsumoto ruby 1.8.2 pre1
• yukihiro matsumoto ruby 1.8.2 pre2
• yukihiro matsumoto ruby 1.8.3
• yukihiro matsumoto ruby 1.8.4
• yukihiro matsumoto ruby 1.8.5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157048 Patch
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218287 Patch
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 docs.info.apple.com
- http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2384798830/index.html jvn.jp
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23165 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23268 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23454 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27576 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31090 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-21.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017363 securitytracker.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:225 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html www.redhat.com
- 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 Patch
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/04/another-dos-vulnerability-in-cgi-library/ Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21441 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-394-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4855 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30734 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10529 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157048 Patch
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218287 Patch
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 docs.info.apple.com
- http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2384798830/index.html jvn.jp
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23165 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23268 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23454 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27576 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31090 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-21.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017363 securitytracker.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:225 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html www.redhat.com
- 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 Patch
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/04/another-dos-vulnerability-in-cgi-library/ Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21441 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-394-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4855 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30734 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10529 oval.cisecurity.org