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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6303
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CVE-2006-6303

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30734

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-394-1

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html

ST
  1017363

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA27576
  Secunia Advisory: SA25402
  Secunia Advisory: SA23454
  Secunia Advisory: SA23268
  Secunia Advisory: SA23165
  Secunia Advisory: SA31090

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10529

MISC
  http://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
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157048
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218287

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:225

JVN
  http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2384798830/index.html

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-21.xml

CONFIRM
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
  http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/04/another-dos-vulnerability-in-cgi-library/

BID
  21441

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html


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