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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-1931
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CVE-2006-1931

Description:
The HTTP/XMLRPC server in Ruby before 1.8.2 uses blocking sockets, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked connections) via a large amount of data.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26102

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-273-1

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html

ST
  1015978

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA20024
  Secunia Advisory: SA16904
  Secunia Advisory: SA19804
  Secunia Advisory: SA19772
  Secunia Advisory: SA20064
  Secunia Advisory: SA20457
  Secunia Advisory: SA21657

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0427.html

OSVDB
  24972

MISC
  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787

MANDRIVA
  http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:079

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-11.xml

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1157

CONFIRM

BID
  17645


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