CVE-2006-5467
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.206 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.4%
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.
Affected configurations
References
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-October/001946.html
secunia.com/advisories/22615
secunia.com/advisories/22624
secunia.com/advisories/22761
secunia.com/advisories/22929
secunia.com/advisories/22932
secunia.com/advisories/23040
secunia.com/advisories/23344
secunia.com/advisories/25402
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-12.xml
securitytracker.com/id?1017194
www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1234
www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1235
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:192
www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html
www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.030-ruby.html
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0729.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/20777
www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-371-1
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4244
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4245
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10185
Related
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.206 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.4%