CVE-2006-6303
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
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.206 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.4%
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.
Affected configurations
References
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157048
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218287
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2384798830/index.html
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
secunia.com/advisories/23165
secunia.com/advisories/23268
secunia.com/advisories/23454
secunia.com/advisories/25402
secunia.com/advisories/27576
secunia.com/advisories/31090
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-21.xml
securitytracker.com/id?1017363
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:225
www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html
www.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
www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/04/another-dos-vulnerability-in-cgi-library/
www.securityfocus.com/bid/21441
www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-394-1
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4855
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30734
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10529
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
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.206 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.4%