CVE-2006-5876 Information

Description

The soup_headers_parse function in soup-headers.c for libsoup HTTP library before 2.2.99 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed HTTP headers probably involving missing fields or values.

Reference

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2509 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.99.news http://osvdb.org/31667 http://secunia.com/advisories/23734 http://secunia.com/advisories/23770 http://secunia.com/advisories/23871 http://secunia.com/advisories/23873 http://secunia.com/advisories/23961 http://secunia.com/advisories/23976 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1248 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:029 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22034 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-411-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0173 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31519 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-965