CVE-2006-6303 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157048 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218287 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN2384798830/index.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/23165 http://secunia.com/advisories/23268 http://secunia.com/advisories/23454 http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 http://secunia.com/advisories/27576 http://secunia.com/advisories/31090 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-21.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1017363 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:225 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html 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://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/04/another-dos-vulnerability-in-cgi-library/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21441 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-394-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4855 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30734 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10529