CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5467

Published: Oct 27, 2006 | Modified: Oct 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ruby Yukihiro_matsumoto 1.8 1.8

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