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.
References
Link Resource
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P Patch Vendor Advisory
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-October/001946.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22615 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22624 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22761 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22929 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22932 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23040 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23344 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-12.xml Patch Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017194 Patch
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1234
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1235
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:192
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.030-ruby.html Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0729.html Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20777 Patch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-371-1 Patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4244 Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4245 Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10185
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2006-10-27T18:00:00

Updated: 2017-10-10T00:57:01

Reserved: 2006-10-23T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2006-5467

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-10-27T18:07:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-11T01:31:19.923


Link: CVE-2006-5467

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