CVE-2006-6303

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-12-04
CWE:
CWE-835
Bugzilla:
218287: CVE-2006-6303 ruby's cgi.rb vulnerable infinite loop DoS

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-6303 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. For other versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux see http://rhn.redhat.com/cve/CVE-2006-6303.html

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (ruby) RHSA-2008:0562 2008-07-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (ruby) RHSA-2007:0961 2007-11-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (ruby) RHSA-2008:0562 2008-07-14

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