PT-2006-6930 · Ruby+1 · Ruby+1

Shugo Maeda · Published 2006-12-06 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2006-6303

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 1.8.5-p2

Description The issue is related to the read multipart function in cgi.rb, which does not properly detect boundaries in MIME multipart content. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service through crafted HTTP requests, resulting in an infinite loop.

Recommendations For Ruby versions prior to 1.8.5-p2, update to version 1.8.5-p2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-6303

RHSA-2007:0961

RHSA-2007_0961

RHSA-2008:0562

Affected Products

Red Hat

Ruby

References · 29

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157048 · Patch
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/04/another-dos-vulnerability-in-cgi-library · Patch
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-394-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:225 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218287 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6303 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://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://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-21.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5162 · Note
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017363 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4855 · Note