CVE-2006-5467

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2006-10-25
Bugzilla:
212396: CVE-2006-5467 Ruby CGI multipart parsing DoS

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The cgi.rb CGI library for Ruby 1.8 allows remote attackers 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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5467 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (ruby) RHSA-2006:0729 2006-11-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (ruby) RHSA-2006:0729 2006-11-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (ruby) RHSA-2006:0729 2006-11-08

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