PT-2006-2915 · Ruby+1 · Ruby+1

Josh Bressers · Published 2006-04-20 · Updated 2018-10-03 · CVE-2006-1931

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby versions prior to 1.8.2

Description The issue is related to the HTTP/XMLRPC server in Ruby, which uses blocking sockets. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service by blocking connections via a large amount of data.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.8.2, update to version 1.8.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-1931

DSA-1157

RHSA-2006:0427

RHSA-2006_0427

Affected Products

Red Hat

Ruby

References · 26

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/27723 · Exploit
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189540 · Patch
• ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-webrick-dos-1.patch · Patch
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/273-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0427.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1931 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1157 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-11.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787 · Patch
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:079 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26102 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19804 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20024 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20064 · Note