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CVE-2006-5467

Date: October 27, 2006

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.

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (29)

Url: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-October/001946.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1234

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

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10185

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1235

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4245

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4244

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23040

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-12.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22929

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20777

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:192

Url: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1017194

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22624

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-371-1

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-5467

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22761

Url: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0729.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5467

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22932

Url: http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.030-ruby.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22615

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25402

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23344

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-5467

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2006-5467

Date: October 27, 2006

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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