CVE-2006-1931 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-webrick-dos-1.patch ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-xmlrpc-dos-1.patch http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787 http://secunia.com/advisories/16904 http://secunia.com/advisories/19772 http://secunia.com/advisories/19804 http://secunia.com/advisories/20024 http://secunia.com/advisories/20064 http://secunia.com/advisories/20457 http://secunia.com/advisories/21657 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015978 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1157 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-11.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:079 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html http://www.osvdb.org/24972 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0427.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17645 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189540 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26102 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11100 https://usn.ubuntu.com/273-1/