CVE-2006-5876

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-11-11
Bugzilla:
223144: CVE-2006-5876 libsoup Server code crashes upon receiving malformed GET HTTP header

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The soup_headers_parse function in soup-headers.c for libsoup HTTP library before 2.2.99 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed HTTP headers, probably involving missing fields or values.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5876 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. The vulnerable code is not used by any application likned with libsoup shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4.

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

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